Mumbai, Feb. 11 -- Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey on Wednesday highlighted the need to deepen India's corporate bond market and said it is working on a market-making framework to strengthen secondary market liquidity.

While speaking with ANI, Pandey said that for India's corporate bond market, which is currently around 16% of GDP, SEBI has taken several enabling measures.

"These measures included the Electronic Book Provider (EBP) platform for price discovery in primary issuances beyond a specified threshold, the Request for Quote (RFQ) platform to facilitate two-way quotes in the secondary market, and the online Bond Platform Providers (OBPPs) to allow retail investors to buy corporate bonds,"...