sebi:WTM/PS/38/MRD/DSA/OCT/2014
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Facts / Headnote
Show Cause Notice dated April 18, 2013 disposed off with censure of NSE and direction to carry out comprehensive review by Independent Expert and submit Plan of Action
Provisions invoked
- s. 11
- s. 19
- s. 12A
- s. 12
- s. 11o
Regulations
- Reg. 7
Parties
- National Stock Exchange of India Limited
Holding
NSE was held to have not adhered to SEBI Circular dated June 28, 2001 and in spirit to SEBI Circular dated January 31, 2000 for the October 05, 2012 market fall, and was censured and directed to get a comprehensive review by an Independent Expert and submit a Plan of Action to SEBI.
Full text
Page 2 of 40 (b) At 09:50:58 a.m., the index breached 10% lower limit which triggered the Index Circuit Breaker. NSE trading system broadcasted the message "Members are requested to note that there would be a market halt if the index value crosses 5217.60 (570 points)". Another message was subsequently broadcasted which read "S&P CNX Nifty has hit 5170.60. The Markets will close." NSE in its press release, made on the same day, inter alia informed that the market-wide index circuit breaker system was triggered due to execution of 59 erroneous orders placed by one of its members, namely, Emkay Global Finance Services Limited ("Emkay Global"), on behalf of an institutional client, for an amount of 650 crores. (c) By the time the market halted at 09:51:04 a.m. (it should have halted at 09:50:58 a.m.), the market had already fallen by 920 points after breaching the 15% level circuit breaker also. (d) It is therefore alleged that NSE has failed to put in place a proper and an effective circuit breaker system whereby matching or trading engines are automatically shut-down or switched-off as and when the corresponding thresholds are breached. (e) NSE has prima facie failed to implement the requirements of the SEBI Circular dated June 28, 2001, when it failed to halt the trading when the market fell by 10% and allowed the index to fall further by 920 points (16%) which resulted in the breach of market integrity and financial loss to investors. B. Failure to implement coordinated tr
Page 3 of 40 derivatives market of NSE during the period trading was halted in the Cash Market of NSE. NSE was also alleged of not having coordinated with other stock exchanges to effect a nationwide trading halt in all equity and equity derivatives segments for two hours as required in terms of the aforementioned SEBI Circular. (b) It was therefore alleged that NSE had failed to comply with the requirement of nationwide trading halt in all equity and equity derivatives segments for two hours, as per the SEBI circular dated June 28, 2001.
Page 4 of 40 (a) The SCN had provided the details of counterparty members to the trades of Emkay Global, where available collateral with them was less than 5% of the total buy value. Such details are given below: Trading Member (TM) code Counterparty TM name Total Buy Value Margin Requirement in (in crores) Available Margin Collateral in (crores) Available Margin Collateral as % of the Margin Requirement 9017 Inventure Growth and Securities Ltd. 2,14,82,68,560 29.68 3.82 12.87% 9973 Prakash K Shah shares and securities Pvt. Ltd. 1,58,87,95,174 20.69 2.76 13.34% 9228 Labdhi Finance Corporation 14,95,29,133 2.95 1.6 54.24% 12963 Focus Shares and Securities Pvt. Ltd. 10,93,81,414 1.69 1.15 68.05%
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