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The Capital Markets Crisis

Specials
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• Plunging Bourses hit Family ties too
• Greed, Fear and a Fatal Attraction
• The Story of the Small Investors
• Seven Days That Shook The Sensex
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Interviews
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• I'll deal with political pressure' - Lt. Gen. P M Tripathi, chief of JPC on stcok scam.
• 'People have lost faith in UTI' - Kirit Somaiya, MP & president, IGF.
• 'Ketan accepted his mistakes' - Hemant Nagrale, Superintendent of Police, CBI.
• 'Investors have learnt a lesson' - John Band, CEO, ASK Raymond James.
• There is no crisis in the market' - Deena Mehta, Interim President, Bombay Stock Exchange
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Columns
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• Arvind Johari: The cyberguru who ran away
• Ketan Parekh: Delusions
of invincibility?
• First Global Stockbroking: Are
they victims or villains?
• Déjà vu on the BSE crisis
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Archives
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• Mystery Man: Who is Ketan Parekh, really?
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April 24, 2001
• Sebi to probe Rathi case independently
• CSE files cases against 10 defaulters
• Govt open to JPC probe in scam: Sinha
• First Global Broking denies manipulation
• 'Tech stocks can't be written off'
April 23, 2001
• 'Harshad used Damayanti as front to rig prices'
• Sebi action against more brokers this week
April 21, 2001
• Shourie to seek CCD guidance on selloff • Balco deal comes under govt scrutiny
• Banks open to funding 3 barred firms
• Reliance Petro faces RoC probe
April 20, 2001
• Parekh prima facie involved in rigging
• Govt open to JPC probe into stocks crash
• D R Mehta for probe into charges against RPL
• 'Ban not to hurt BPL's telecom plans'
• Sebi step likely to hit divestment plan
• First Global chief Shankar Sharma gets bail
• First Global chief Shankar Sharma arrested
• Sebi may turn up the heat on errant brokers
• ASE official quits amid limits-up row
• Market fall impact on UTI not clear: Sinha
April 19, 2001
• Sebi debars Harshad from dealing for life; restricts BPL, Videocon, Sterlite
• First Global, Bang, CSFB barred from trading
April 18, 2001
• Ketan Parekh, 2 others denied bail
• BSE board favours sacking fin director
• RBI puts 5 co-op banks on watchlist
• RBI to focus on risk management
April 17, 2001
• RIL diverted IPO funds to rig markets: BSP
• FM details Global Trust loans to Parekh
• Sebi ensuring safe markets: Sinha
• CBI probe against BSE ex-director mooted
• 2 Kapol bank directors seek board supersession
• Prudential norms expected for co-op banks
• Defaulter lodges claim for Rs 25 mn with CSE
• Bourse's board not asked to quit, says ASE chief
April 16, 2001
• Sebi report blames brokers for crisis
• Banks' losses from coop banks Rs 2.7 billion
• New law soon to check fly-by-night NBFCs: PM
• RBI tightens banks' bullion trade norms
• ASE to initiate steps towards demutualisation
• Global Software, DSQ rigged on CSE for long
• 'UTI exited key stocks at peak levels'
April 14, 2001
• Sebi probing Ketan Parekh's stake in DPs
• Hugar to focus on putting house in order
April 12, 2001
• JCR for Ketan, bail for Ramesh Parikh
• HSBC-Zee share deal under cloud
• ED probing top 50 brokers
• Sebi move may hamper Damani bid for VST • BSE, NSE file 'sketchy' Amara Raja case rpts
• Rs 500-mn outflow from GTB in 17 days
• MoF throws cold water on Sebi's ambitions
April 11, 2001
• Administrator says Classic financials are strong
• Sebi seeks FII trading details from Jan 1999
• Trade details with Rathi-linked firms sought
• Focus on micro-regulations likely
• LIC defers launch of new schemes till July
April 10, 2001
• Sebi to review order in Rathi case by Apr 16
• Ketan admits receiving funds from Zee, HFCL
• RBI demands banks' market exposure details
• Bank of India suspends bullion trading
• Sebi crisis report to cover CSE angle
• Stage set for Gelli's exit as CMD of GTB
• Sebi asks banks to report exposures to KP cos
• Co-op bank depositors wooed
April 9, 2001
• CBI custody for KP extended till April 12
• MPs to meet Sinha for bank revival
• Madhavpura MD may be suspended
• Rs 5 billion loan to revive MMCB sought
• Debarred BSE brokers to move against Sebi
• Pressure on Sebi to gather Rathi evidence
• Inter-bank exposure norms soon
• Classic board superseded
 April 7, 2001
• Govt to delve deep into the stock scam: Sinha
• Stocks crisis: Value among the wreckage
• Gitanjali Gems sues Chokshi for Rs 80 mn fraud
• Sebi may split pool account
• GTB will grow at 50%, says Gelli
• Sebi bars Cyberspace from taking new business
April 6, 2001
• UP ministers were behind Cyberspace's Joharis
• Madhavpura Bank chief remanded till April 9
• UTI, GTB chiefs trade charges • Probe into Gelli-Parekh links still on, says RBI
• CMs to discuss RBI control on co-op banks
• Corporates chary of floating banks
April 5, 2001
• Madhavpura Co-op Bank chief surrenders • KP entities barred from taking fresh business
• HC adjourns Anand Rathi case hearing
• Regulators play the oneupmanship game
• SHCIL lent Rs 980-mn stocks in 6 mths
• Regulators play the oneupmanship game
• Indian bourses second-most speculative
• Badla financiers lost Rs 5 billion in market crisis
• UTI reduces exposure in tech stocks to 19%
• CSE plans austerity drive
April 4, 2001
• Deena Mehta, two others taken off BSE
board
• CBI allows BoI chief to go after questioning
• CBI picks up Ketan's kin for questioning
• Why should I quit? asks Mehta
• CBI sees Ketan, HFCL nexus
• Sebi, I-T call for in-transit data
• DP transactions to be traced
• Badla trades down 80% at CSE
• Offshore funds unfazed by stocks crisis
• Madhavpura Bank lent Rs 10 billion to brokers
• RBI to meet fund needs of co-op banks
• RBI tells banks to tighten bullion trade norms
April 3, 2001
• GTB-UTI Bank merger on hold, says Subramanyam
• JPC probe into stock scam likely
• D R Mehta may be replaced at Sebi helm
• Govt to crack down on market crooks: FM
• Sinha 'disgusted' with market scandals
• RBI promises liquidity support to co-op banks
• RBI deputy governors' tenure under cloud
• 3 PSU banks cut trade with Guj co-op banks
• CBI questions BoI official on stock scam
• Ex-SBI chief to head CSE panel
• Co-op banks plan to save Madhavpura
April 2, 2001
• Madhavpura bank depositors to take to streets
• How the KP drama unfolded
• RBI tells banks to report co-op bank losses
• CBI searches homes of Madhavpura brass
• MoF asks Sebi to extend trading probe
• Bullion swindle part of the larger scam
• Dubai link of brokers being probed
• BoI discounted Rs 24 bn pay orders in 9 weeks
• RBI asks banks for Parekh accounts
• RBI estimates Madhavpura damage at Rs 12 bn
• Did RBI try to accommodate Parekh?
• Quivering bankers try to stem the rot
• Raid on CBEC chief stirs a hornet's nest
March 31, 2001
• 'Evidence of Insider Trading in GTB Scrip'
• IT raids on brokers yield Rs 4.7 billion
• Market situation under control: PM
• Ketan Parekh in CBI custody till April 9
• Cong wants JPC probe into market crash
• Caution! Steep fall ahead, warn brokerages • Ketan produced in court; Kartik held
• HC tells Rathi to amend petition by April 4
• Ketan Parekh always let money do the talking
• CBI grills Parekh through the night
• RBI asks BoI to explain pay order scam
• KVP fund on backburner
• Stock-lending mechanism blamed for CSE woes
• SBI hit by co-op bank troubles
March 30, 2001
• Bank Losses May Go Up to Rs 8.43 Bn
• CBI arrests stock broker Ketan Parekh • Sinha justifies CBI move against Ketan Parekh
• PNB may lose Rs 170 mn on bank defaults • Calcutta Stock Exchange board resigns
• NSE confident on April options kickoff
• Sebi restrains Anand Rathi from trading
• BoI links pay order scam to Ketan Parekh
March 29, 2001
• CSE recovers Rs 65 million from defaulters
• Rush for bank guarantee cancellation at CSE
• Sebi takes 1st step in corporatisation of bourses
• Sebi board to be overhauled by April-end
March 28, 2001
• Sebi says to block new BSE broker-directors
• BSE elects A Damani, S Shah, Apurva Shah
• Sebi holds applications for deemed FII status
March 27, 2001
• BSE may dip into TGF to bail out 3 brokers
• Govt plans Round II of stock scam probe
• BSE board elections on March 28 • Sebi probes in-transit shares issue
March 26, 2001
• Sebi wants top scrips' off-market details
• B1, B2, Z group stocks' exposure curbed
March 24, 2001
• Sebi ends CSE probe
• CSE dips general reserves to meet gap
March 23, 2001
• I-T raids on Ketan Parekh, 17 more brokers
• 3 BSE directors put in papers
• Payment shortfall crisis at CSE resolved
• CSE fiasco spares investors, hurts members • No decision yet on banks' advances to
brokers
March 22, 2001 • Bourses rocked by worst crisis in a decade • Chronology of Indian stock market crisis
• BSE B1, B2 margins to be hiked
• RBI to probe bank over bounced cheques
• CSE unofficial market under Sebi watch
• Sebi to supersede CSE board
• BSE seeks Sebi nod for nominees on committees
• RBI-Sebi panel on banks' capital mkt meets
• Banks against fresh guarantee exposure to CSE
brokers
March 21, 2001 • Sebi waiting for CSE settlement: Mehta
• Madhavpura crisis was on the cards
• Sentiment weak despite vote on account
• Barred BSE broker-directors to depose from Wednesday
• CSE confident of successful pay-in, pay-out
• Amara Raja says stock swing not connected to operations
March 20, 2001
• Amara Raja price rigging probe launched
• RBI asks cooperative banks for share market data
• CSE to make statement on payment crisis
• Sebi likely to defer BSE board polls
• Sebi may direct CSE to undo trades
• Banks snap credit lines to brokers
• CSE notice to 3 brokers; building not to be
mortgaged
March 19, 2001 • Sebi to hear Rathi on Mar 31, allows him to inspectrecords
• 3 CSE brokers face criminal proceedings
• Sebi move no great shakes: Brokers
• We are financially very strong, reiterates
BSE
• Banks up in arms as CSE invokes
guarantees
• CSE in crisis, building may be mortgaged
• Sebi to hear Rathi on Mar 31, allows him to
inspect records
March 17, 2001
• BSE steps up initial futures margin to 14%
• Nearly 70 brokers in CSE default
• Bank, FI share sale nullified
• No payment crisis at DSE
• Sebi to widen rolling settlement by July
• CSE liquidates TGF to meet payment
shortfall
• Sebi to widen rolling settlement by July
March 16, 2001
• Budget likely to be passed despite parliamentary
crisis
• BSE polls may see new twists
• Sebi probe finds huge short sale at CSE
March 15, 2001
• Sebi told to file reply by Mar 19 on Rathi's
petition
• CSE withholds pay-out
• Sebi report sees Parekh hand in GTB price
rigging
• RBI files criminal suit against Madhavpura
Bank
• Banks exposure to capital markets within limits,
says Reddy
• RBI wants board of troubled bank replaced
• Sebi announces new measures for a safer
market
March 14, 2001
• Rathi moves court against Sebi ruling
• Calcutta's unofficial badla market worries
players
• Move to strengthen Sebi welcome: CII
March 13, 2001
• BSE chugs along without brokers at helm
• Depositors withdraw Rs 650 mn from
Ahmedabad bank
• Banks roundly ignore Sebi bait
• BSE functioning will not be affected, says
executive director
• FM's statement in Rajya Sabha on markets
• Things are under control now: Sebi chief
• Govt mulls news laws to protect investors
March 12, 2001
• Cops await controversial tape from Sebi on
Rathi's talk
• Sucheta Dalal on the capital markets
• BSE may get 'tax-neutral status', says I-T
chief
• No payment crisis in BSE, says Deena
Mehta
• Sebi acts against BSE board
March 11, 2001
• Sebi issues fresh guidelines to restore normalcy
on bourses
March 10, 2001
• CSE completes Rs 3.26-billion pay-out
March 9, 2001
• 'Brokers are facing a cash crisis'
• BSE's corporatisation will come under a
cloud
• Calcutta bourse says settlement merelydelayed
• No payment crisis; TGF not touched, says CSE
chief
• Deena Mehta is first woman to head Bombay
Stock Exchange
March 8, 2001
• No payment crisis in the stock market: Sinha
• BSE board meets over chief's quit offer
• Parliament to debate stock market crisis
• Deena Mehta is interim BSE president; Rathi's
resignation accepted • Ketan Parekh has nearly 4% in GTB: Gelli
March 7, 2001
• Anand Rathi offers to step down as BSE
president
• Short sale ban to impact liquidity: Market
players
March 6, 2001
• FM in touch with Sebi on post-budget market crash probe
• There goes the Sensex again
March 5, 2001
• Sebi to move against brokers over crash:
Mehta
• RBI looking into pvt banks' stock market
exposure
• Sebi probes stocks fall, to review margins
• Battered Bombay shares may fall further
• Debt instruments to be listed for
trading soon: Mehta
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