SEBI/HO/IMD/PoD2/P/CIR/2025/56 April 22, 2025

CIRCULAR SEBI/HO/IMD/PoD2/P/CIR/2025/56 April 22, 2025 All Trustee Companies/ Board of Trustees of Mutual Funds/ All Mutual Funds/ All Asset Management Companies (AMCs)/ Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI)/ Registrar Transfer Agents (RTAs) Sir / Madam, Subject: Change in cut-off timings to determine applicable NAV with respect to repurchase/ redemption of units in overnight schemes of Mutual Funds With a view to safeguard clients' funds placed with Stock Brokers (SBs) / Clearing Members (CMs), SEBI vide circular "Upstreaming of clients' funds by Stock Brokers (SBs)/ Clearing Members (CMs) to Clearing Corporations (CCs)" dated December 12, 2023 ("upstreaming circular") has specified the framework requiring SB/CMs to upstream (i.e. place with) all the clients' clear credit balances to CCs on End of Day basis. The clients' funds shall be upstreamed by SB/ CMs to CCs only in the form of either cash, lien on Fixed Deposit Receipts created out of clients' funds, or pledge of units of Mutual Fund Overnight Schemes (MFOS) created out of clients' funds. In order to operationalize the upstreaming of clients' funds in the form of pledge of units of MFOS, a Working Group of industry participants, AMFI and members of the Mutual Funds Advisory Committee (MFAC) recommended a change in cut-off timings to determine applicable NAV with respect to repurchase of units in overnight fund schemes. Thereafter, the proposal was placed for public consultation. Based on the analysis of public feedback, para 8.4.5.4 of the Master Circular for Mutual Funds dated June 27, 2024 stands modified as under: 8.4.5.4 The following Cut-off Timings shall be observed by AMCs with respect to repurchase of units in liquid fund & overnight fund schemes and plans and the following NAVs shall be applied fo

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