SEBI mulling revisiting policy on proprietary trading by brokers

20 Jan 2014 Evaluate

To protect small investors from any manipulation by brokers, market regulator SEBI is mulling revisiting its policy on proprietary trades. After such approval, brokers would have to strictly make disclosures about their proprietary trades and ensure a ‘Chinese Wall’ like structure between these trading activities and the trades conducted by them on behalf of their clients.

Market regulators were propelled to consider the issue on proprietary trades after many cases came to fore in the recent past, where some brokers were found indulging in manipulative activities involving their proprietary trades, while in certain cases, clients’ money has been misused for their own trading interest as well. Further, cases like the NSEL crisis, which threw light on possible manipulations by brokers, is also one of reason behind such move.

In proprietary trading, brokerage firms trade in stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities, among others, with their own fund rather than customers’ money, in order to make a profit for itself, rather than their customers.

Further, revising the policy for proprietary trades is expected to be one of the key focus areas in secondary market for SEBI this year. Similarly, last year, SEBI carried out investigations for more than 200 stock brokers and sub-brokers to check for non-compliance of norms to check money laundering and terror funding through capital markets.

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