sebi:EAD/PM-NK/AO/8/2017-18

SEBI · SEBI · 2017-05-18 · Prasanta Mahapatra, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Disposed of without imposition of any penalty

Provisions invoked

• s. 15H
• s. 15I

Regulations

• Reg. 3(a)
• Reg. 9
• Reg. 4(2)(a)
• Reg. 4(2)(g)

Parties

• BP Equities Private Limited

Holding

The Adjudicating Officer held that violation of Clause A(2) of the Code of Conduct for Stock Brokers, Schedule II read with Regulation 9 of SEBI (Stock Brokers and Sub-Brokers) Regulations, 1992 by BP Equities Private Limited was not established and disposed of Show Cause Notice A&E/EAD/PM-NK/17662/2017 dated July 28, 2017 without imposition of any penalty.

Full text

Page 2 of 9 Trading Member Name Buy & Sell client Name Total Self Trade Volume Total Self Trade Count No of days on which self- trades executed % Of Self Traded Qty. To Market Volume BP Equities Private Limited BP Fintrade Private Limited 983832 1924 15 0.15

Page 3 of 9 7. Vide letter dated September 12, 2017 the Noticee, filed reply to the SCN. The summary of submissions are as follows:  The Noticee submitted that BP Fintrade Private Limited is one of the major clients with large trading and investment portfolio and trade in multiple securities in large quantities and it regularly monitors their trading activity in

Page 4 of 9 has acted in full integrity not just with its clients but also with the counterparties and other market participants at large.  The Noticee further, submitted that it has an unblemished track record of 50 years in securities markets and have functioned with a lot of care, diligence and caution. In the current case as well, exercised all the required skill, care and diligence by ensuring that the client has adequate balance and the trades carried out are within the framework of law.  The Noticee further submitted that a large part of its reply are based on the reply submitted by its client (BP Fintrade Private Limited) and it intends to rely upon their submission from time to time.  A gist of the reply submitted by the Noticee’s client BP Fintrade Private Limited is given in the below paragraphs:  Its contribution to the market volume in the scrip was a meagre 1.76% on BSE and 1.91% on NSE. Of the above the contribution of the self-trades to the market volume was mere 0.15% on NSE and NIL on BSE. Further, the resultant self-trade were only on 15 days of the 339 trading days and the time difference between the buy and sell orders were in the range of few seconds to few hours(4 hours and 23 minutes). Also for the 257718 shares the time difference was more than 5 minutes.  The Noticee submitted that trades are executed from various terminals where multiple dealers execute trades as per predefined trading strategy. Since the trades are through multiple terminals,

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