Sebi to cut FPI registration time from 30 days to just 5 days, aiming to boost foreign investment, chief Pandey says
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s market regulator plans to sharply cut the registration timeline for foreign portfolio investors, Securities and Exchange Board of India chief Tuhin Kanta Pandey said. “The idea is that we should take five days.
Currently, we are talking about 30 days. But people's impression is that it takes a few months," Pandey said in an interview with Mint. To further attract FPIs, Sebi has been holding webinars to tutor them on entering the Indian markets to make their onboarding smoother and faster.
About 2,000 FPIs have been part of such webinars conducted by Sebi officers, Pandey said. The regulator wants to make the Indian capital market more attractive for foreign investors as factors such as high valuations and weak earnings growth deter investor interest. FPIs had a net outflow of ₹1.66 trillion from the equities market in 2025 against inflows of ₹427 crore the year before, according to data from the National Securities Depository Ltd.
Foreign investors have pulled out a net ₹35,962 crore from Indian equities so far in 2026. Mint reported last month that high valuations and a prolonged slowdown in earnings pushed foreign investors to move money out of Indian stocks and into AI-led markets such as Taiwan and South Korea. This shift left India among the weaker-performing markets even as global markets were unsettled by US-Europe trade tensions.
FPIs have been using every market rebound to build short positions, reflecting continued concerns over corporate earnings. The Sebi chief said recent interactions with FPIs in Japan highlighted the need for deeper engagement with countries that already have strong economic ties with India. He sensed a high level of confidence in India among
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