The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) will go through a third-party assessment of its regulatory framework by the World Bank and the IMF this year, an exercise which will help the former align itself closer to global regulatory standards and get feedback on its current functioning. The assessment will be conducted as part of the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP), a joint programme of the IMF and World Bank established in 1999. The programme analyses the resilience of a country's financial sector, the quality of its regulatory and supervisory framework, and the capacity to manage and resolve financial crises. This is the third time Sebi is going through this programme, with previous supervisions in 2012 and 2001, which was a pilot assessment. In September 2010, IMF had made it mandatory for 25 jurisdictions (including India), with systemically important financial sectors to undergo financial stability assessments under the FSAP every five years. Among ot