# India Corporate Red Flags: Governance & Risk Signals Track corporate red-flag signals across NSE-listed companies from official exchange and SEBI filings: promoter pledges and encumbrance, insider trading, takeover (SAST) disclosures, exchange surveillance (GSM/ASM/ESM), related-party transactions and BRSR ESG. This hub links the live scanner, the data API, and a plain-English write-up of every signal. Source: https://www.tigzig.com/india-red-flags ## Live tool - scan it yourself Vigil is the interactive scanner. Pull any NSE-listed company’s consolidated red-flag report, or browse and filter each signal. - [Vigil - India Corporate Red-Flag Scanner](https://vigil.tigzig.com) - Scans NSE-listed companies for corporate red flags across seven signal tables: credit ratings, insider trading, promoter pledges, takeover (SAST) disclosures, encumbrance events, exchange surveillance (GSM/ASM/ESM) and related-party transactions. Pull a stock’s consolidated report, or browse and filter each dataset. ## Ownership, pledge & takeover Signals about who owns the company, how much of it is pledged, and any change-of-control activity. - [Pledge](https://www.tigzig.com/vigil/pledge) - What promoter share pledging means, how pledge differs from the broader encumbrance category (lien, NDU, negative lien), why the quarterly snapshot and the event feed complement each other, and why heavy pledging is a governance red flag. - [Encumbrance](https://www.tigzig.com/vigil/encumbrance) - The real-time promoter pledge / unpledge / invocation event feed: what creation, release and invocation mean, the encumbrance types, how to read the percentages, and how it complements the quarterly pledge snapshot. - [Takeover (SAST)](https://www.tigzig.com/vigil/sast) - The SEBI Takeover Code in plain language: ownership thresholds, Reg 29(1)/29(2) disclosures, when a 25% crossing forces an open offer, acquisition modes, and the famous takeover battles that show it in action. ## Trading & surveillance What insiders are disclosing, and when the exchange places a stock under a surveillance framework. - [Insider Trading](https://www.tigzig.com/vigil/insider-trading) - Who counts as an insider, what they must disclose, and how to read promoter / director / KMP buy, sell and pledge transactions filed under SEBI PIT Regulation 7 on NSE. - [Surveillance](https://www.tigzig.com/vigil/surveillance) - What it means when NSE / SEBI place a stock under surveillance: the GSM, ASM and ESM frameworks with their stages, price bands and settlement rules, the other risk flags (IRP, ICA, encumbrance), and the NSE series codes. ## Governance & related-party Related-party dealings and the quarterly financial-results disclosures that sit behind them. - [Related Party Transactions](https://www.tigzig.com/vigil/rpt) - What Related Party Transactions are, why most are routine, how they are disclosed under SEBI LODR Regulation 23, the transaction types and relationship groups, and what actually warrants a second look. - [Quarterly Results](https://www.tigzig.com/vigil/quarterly-results) - How quarterly financial results are sourced from NSE XBRL filings and made comparable across ~750 companies: line items extracted (incl. banking NPA), matched company sets, limitations, and an independent 4-phase validation with documented data-quality exclusions. ## ESG (BRSR) India’s Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report: the ESG methodology and its data-quality caveats. - [BRSR Methodology](https://www.tigzig.com/vigil/brsr-methodology) - How India BRSR (Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report) ESG disclosures are sourced from SEBI XBRL, mapped to the 9 Principles via the SEBI taxonomy, and normalized so companies of very different sizes can be compared. - [BRSR Data Quality](https://www.tigzig.com/vigil/brsr-data-quality) - Why BRSR ESG filings carry data-quality noise, the classes of issue found across the Nifty Total Market universe, the two-layer (algorithmic + printed-PDF) validation, and the honest bottom line: reliable for aggregates, verify specific company cells against the PDF. ## Filings, data & validation Where the data comes from, how XBRL enables cross-company analysis, how it is validated, and the known data quirks. - [Data Sources](https://www.tigzig.com/vigil/data-sources) - Every VIGIL dataset and where it comes from: the official NSE / SEBI source, coverage window, refresh cadence, key fields and known quirks - all built from publicly available India corporate filings. - [India XBRL Filings](https://www.tigzig.com/vigil/india-xbrl-filings) - What XBRL is and why it enables cross-company analysis, the major India corporate XBRL filing types under SEBI LODR, the old vs new NSE Integrated Filing systems, and the official pages to download each. - [Validation](https://www.tigzig.com/vigil/data-validation) - The two-level validation behind VIGIL: automated integrity checks on every data update, plus periodic independent audits reconciling the database against the original NSE sources - with the headline results and findings for each dataset. - [Known Issues](https://www.tigzig.com/vigil/known-issues) - Company name variations across NSE datasets, the Tata Motors demerger, and the ISIN-based master table being built to unify name variants and eliminate duplicate search results. ## Data & API Free, no-auth access to the same disclosure data the scanner runs on. - [Vigil Data API - reference](https://www.tigzig.com/apis/vigil) - Query any of the 7 signal tables, pull one company across all tables, or download the full dataset. No key, no sign-up. - [Vigil Data API and Download - 7 tables, updated daily](https://www.tigzig.com/post/vigil-data-api-download) - What the API returns, the 7 tables, and how to download the bulk data. ## Background reading A couple of pieces worth reading alongside the signals. - [Evaluating a stock? Pull its Vigil Report](https://www.tigzig.com/post/evaluating-a-stock-pull-its-vigil-report) - How the consolidated red-flag report reads for a single company. - [Published full validation reports for every dataset](https://www.tigzig.com/post/vigil-full-validation-reports-published) - The reconciliation and audit trail behind each signal table.