Sebi board to speed up AIF launches, bring back open-market buybacks at 19 June meet

Sebi's board, meeting on June 19, is set to fast-track AIF approvals, reintroduce open-market buybacks, relax intraday borrowing limits for mutual funds, and remove mandatory merchant-banker requirements for niche investment schemes. The package of measures signals a broad deregulatory push to ease capital-raising and boost market liquidity across AIFs, mutual funds, and listed companies.