Product notes, regulatory commentary, and field reports from the team building Yobee
SEBI's Mission Jagrook aims at reducing fin-fluencer scams
On 25 April 2026, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched Mission Jagrook, SEBI's nationwide investor-awareness campaign, at the regulator's 38th Foundation Day (PIB Release ID 2255490). It is the outreach arm of a crackdown already underway: SEBI has removed more than 1.2 lakh misleading fin-fluencer posts, deployed an AI tool called Sudarshan, and barred regulated entities from associating with unregistered influencers since August 2024. For brokers, AMCs and research desks serving India's 140 million investors, registered status and traceable research now separate real advice from deepfake-driven noise.
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Regional-language advisory on Yobee's Publisher : how a top-10 broker lifted engagement
A top-10 Indian full-service broker moved its advisory from English-only to six Indian languages on Yobee's Publisher, publishing the same research call natively across its app, nudges and RM desks from one workflow. With most growth now from Tier-2 and Tier-3 towns, the switch lifted in-app read-through, roughly doubled nudge open rates, and raised RM follow-through — gains that track published BFSI benchmarks where localisation is linked to conversion uplifts of up to 5x.
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MCX Silver 100 goes live, smallest silver futures lot in India
MCX began trading Silver 100, a 100-gram silver futures contract, today, with six monthly expiries from June through November 2026 available at the open. The contract was notified through circular 287/2026 dated 14 May 2026. At silver prices near ₹2.75 lakh per kilogram, one lot carries a notional of around ₹27,500, about a tenth of Silver Micro and the smallest silver derivative on an Indian exchange, widening MCX's bullion shelf alongside Silver, Silver Mini and Silver Micro after bullion F&O turnover at the exchange rose 496% year-on-year in FY26.
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NCDEX RAINMUMBAI lists 29 May, opens weather as an Indian asset class
NCDEX begins trading on RAINMUMBAI, India's first SEBI-approved exchange-traded weather derivative, from 29 May 2026. The cash-settled parametric futures contract references Mumbai's June–September monsoon against a Long Period Average of 2,206.7 mm, with four monthly expiries, a 1 mm tick size and a ₹50 per mm lot multiplier, developed with IIT Bombay using IMD station data from Santacruz and Colaba. The launch puts a new instrument class, outside equities, debt and commodities, on Indian multi-asset advisory and research shelves.
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NSE EGRs go live, adding a second digital-gold rail
NSE launched its Electronic Gold Receipts (EGR) segment on 4 May 2026, going live with five denominations (100 mg to 1 kg), two purity grades (999 and 995), and T+1 settlement. The segment runs on the same SEBI gold-exchange framework under which BSE has operated EGRs since Muhurat 2022; Sequel Logistics and Brink's India are the registered vault managers. EGRs now sit alongside Gold ETFs (₹1.81 lakh crore AUM at end-January 2026) and physical gold as a third regulated digital-gold instrument, accessible from any NSE-linked demat.
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SEBI's 48 Significant Indices put Nifty 50 and Sensex under formal regulation
SEBI's 5 May 2026 circular names the first 48 Significant Indices under the Index Providers Regulations, 2024, covering Nifty 50, BSE Sensex, Nifty Bank and the major debt and hybrid benchmarks tracked by mutual fund schemes above Rs 20,000 crore AUM. NSE Indices, BSE Index Services and CRISIL must register with SEBI by 5 November 2026 and carve out index operations into a separately registered legal entity by 5 May 2028. What it changes for ETFs, index funds, derivatives, methodology disclosure and India's Rs 15 lakh crore passive market.
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BSE launches FOCIT futures and options, India's first IT-sector index derivative
BSE launched futures and options on the BSE Focused IT Index (FOCIT) on 11 May 2026, becoming the only Indian exchange with derivatives on a sectoral IT benchmark. The cash-settled monthly contracts (lot size 45, expiry last Thursday) track 14 large-cap names from the BSE 500 including TCS, Infosys, HCL Technologies, Wipro, Tech Mahindra and LTIMindtree, with 172 members generating Rs 148 crore of day-one turnover. What it changes for IT-sector hedging, PMS books, sector-rotation overlays and India's listed IT derivative shelf under SEBI's tightened equity F&O framework.
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PaRRVA goes live, routing IA and RA performance claims through CARE Ratings
SEBI's Past Risk and Return Verification Agency (PaRRVA) framework went live on May 4, 2026, with CARE Ratings as the designated agency and NSE as the data centre, under SEBI circular dated April 29, 2026. Investment Advisers and Research Analysts must enrol by August 3, 2026; from that date, every past performance claim in advisory marketing, pitch decks, websites and social posts must use PaRRVA-verified data. The framework also covers exchange-empanelled algo providers and stock brokers running similar services.
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