SEBI Latest Current Affairs 2025: All Major Updates

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The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) plays a crucial role in regulating and safeguarding the interests of investors in the Indian securities market. As the primary market regulator, SEBI consistently launches new initiatives, digital platforms, and reforms to ensure transparency, accountability, and efficiency in financial markets.

From tackling misleading investment claims to enhancing corporate governance and improving investor services, SEBI’s recent steps have been highly significant for aspirants of UPSC, banking, SSC, and other competitive exams. Keeping updated with SEBI current affairs is essential for exam preparation as well as understanding India’s financial sector reforms.

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SEBI Latest Current Affairs 2025 [January – December]

July-October 2025

◾ The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has launched a new digital verification tool called “SEBI Check.” This initiative enables investors to independently verify the bank account details and Unified Payments Interface (UPI) IDs of registered market intermediaries such as brokers, mutual fund distributors, and investment advisers. The tool aims to enhance transparency, prevent financial fraud, and strengthen investor protection within India’s securities market.

◾ The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has launched SWAGAT-FI (Single Window Automatic & Generalised Access for Trusted Foreign Investors) in September 2025, a reform framework to simplify and streamline foreign investment by providing a single-window registration, 10-year validity, and reduced documentation and compliance requirements, aiming to attract long-term foreign capital.

◾ SEBI has dismissed the allegations made by US-based short seller Hindenburg Research against Gautam Adani and his companies regarding stock manipulation, stating that the claims were unsubstantiated.

◾ The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), in collaboration with leading Market Infrastructure Institutions (MIIs) and Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI), has launched a joint media campaign titled “SEBI vs SCAM” to strengthen investor protection and combat financial scams.

◾ SEBI, in collaboration with the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), CDSL, NSDL, and KFintech, has launched a “Securities Market Hackathon” with the theme “Driving Innovation and Tech-Oriented Solutions in Securities Market.”

◾ SEBI, in collaboration with the National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM), has launched the “SEBI Arth Yatra Contest 2025” to promote investor education and awareness across the country.

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◾ SEBI has launched the campaign ‘जागरूक निवेशक सुरक्षित निवेशक (Jagruk Niveshak Surakshit Niveshak)’ to caution investors against fraudsters and curb fraudulent activities on Social Media Platforms (SMPs).

◾ SEBI, in collaboration with the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, has launched a nationwide training initiative for Block Level Panchayat representatives to promote financial literacy and investor education at the grassroots level.

◾ SEBI has officially announced the NSEL Settlement Scheme 2025, offering brokers involved in the National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL) matter an opportunity to resolve securities law violations through a structured settlement mechanism.

◾ SEBI has unveiled the ‘Venture Capital Fund (VCF) Settlement Scheme 2025’ under which the Base Amount for settlement of delays up to one year in winding up the scheme is fixed at ₹1 lakh.

◾ SEBI has granted renewal of recognition to the Multi Commodity Exchange Clearing Corporation Ltd (MCXCCL) to act as a clearing corporation for a period of three years.

◾ SEBI, in collaboration with the National Stock Exchange (NSE), has launched “Samuhik Prativedan Manch”, a unified reporting platform to simplify compliance for stockbrokers.

March-June 2025

◾ Tuhin Kanta Pandey is set to become the next Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).

◾ SEBI has launched ‘Bond Central’ portal, a centralized database for corporate bonds to boost retail investor participation in the bond market.

◾ SEBI has partnered with DigiLocker to reduce unclaimed assets in the Indian securities market and enhance investor protection.

◾ SEBI has launched the Document Number Verification System (DNVS) to ensure transparency and verifiability of documents issued by the market regulator.

◾ SEBI has announced the formation of a High-Level Committee (HLC) to review conflict of interest provisions, chaired by Pratyush Sinha.

◾ The Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority (IEPFA), in collaboration with SEBI, conducted a strategic preparatory meeting to launch ‘Niveshak Shivir’, a nationwide initiative to help investors reclaim unclaimed shares and dividends.

◾ SEBI has launched a new initiative titled ‘SEBI Check’, designed to help investors verify payment credentials before making transactions.

◾ SEBI has announced several measures to ease compliance in the stock market ecosystem and encourage more foreign-owned startups to shift domicile back to India — a practice known as Reverse Flipping.

January-February 2025

◾ The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has launched a new initiative “PaRRVA” (Protection against Rumours, Returns, and Verification of Advice) to combat misleading claims about investment returns, where the letter ‘V’ represents Verification.

◾ SEBI has launched a digital knowledge repository named “Dharohar – Milestones in the Indian Securities Market” to preserve and showcase the history of securities market reforms in India.

◾ SEBI has developed a web-based portal named “iSPOT” (Integrated SEBI Portal for Technical Glitches) for submission of preliminary and final root cause analysis (RCA) reports of technical glitches by stock exchanges and other Market Infrastructure Institutions (MIIs).

◾ SEBI is set to launch a “when-listed” platform aimed at reducing activities in the unregulated grey market, which significantly influences stock listings.

◾ SEBI has launched a new digital platform “MITRA” (Mutual Fund Investment Tracing and Retrieval Assistant) to help investors track and reclaim inactive or unclaimed Mutual Fund (MF) folios, where the letter ‘T’ stands for Tracing.

◾ SEBI has launched a dedicated portal for Related Party Transactions (RPT) to strengthen corporate governance and ensure better transparency in the Indian securities market.

◾ National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) and Central Depository Services Limited (CDSL), in collaboration with SEBI, have launched a mobile application “Unified Investor Platform (UIP)”, integrating CDSL’s MyEasi with NSDL’s SPEED-e services.