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Approves IPO reform proposal, new system could start by March

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Chinas top legislature on Sunday approved a proposal to revamp the countrys initial public offering ( IPO) system, authorising the government to implement changes to the system that could be in place as early as March, the official Xinhua news agency said.
The State Council, or cabinet, had been awaiting approval on its plans to shift to aUS- style registration system for stock market floations.
In the latest reform aimed at developing Chinas financial market, the changes are expected to help companies raise money more efficiently and reduce the involvement of regulators in the capital market.
The widely expected approval by the National Peoples Congress, announced on Sunday, paves the way for regulators to draft detailed rules that will be implemented after seeking public feedback.
Xinhua reported the approval on its official microblog. The next step for the State Council is to come up with specific details of the new IPO system. The cabinet could do so and implement a new IPO mechanism as early as on March 1 next year, Xinhua reported.
However, the state council has two years from March to do so.
The State Council said earlier this month it expects the new system to be implemented within two years.
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) began speaking of moving away from its current approval- based system - seen as distorting the IPO market and encouraging official corruption -to a registration system, where the market decides who gets to list and for how much, in early 2014.
But the stock market crash that began in mid- June, blamed in part on an IPO glut hitting the market, put that process on hold as the CSRC froze new listings to stabilise a market that lost as much as 40 per cent in just a few weeks.
After a pause of more than three months beginning in July, IPOs were finally allowed to resume over the past several weeks.
Although most market observers welcome the reforms as a needed step towards a fairer and more transparent listing process, investors have also raised concerns that a more streamlined process could result in a flood of new listings, pushing down stocks once again.
The changes are expected to help companies raise money more efficiently and reduce the involvement of regulators in the capital market.
Business Standard, New Delhi, 28th Dec. 2015 

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