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Sebi proposals to deal with suspicious trading will curb fraud: Experts
Markets watchdog Sebi's proposed regulatory framework to deal with unexplained suspicious trading patterns will help in detecting activities involving evasive tactics like the use of mule accounts, complex entity structures, and encrypted communication, experts said on Monday.
The proposed framework would be a major step in bringing the perpetrators under the law and will help protect the interest of investors at large against such practices, Shrey Jain, Founder and CEO of SAS Online, said.
Last week, Sebi proposed a new regulatory framework, wherein a person or group of connected persons exhibiting an unexplained suspicious trading pattern -- repetitive abnormal gainful dealings in a security or a set of securities, around the presence of material non-public information -- would be deemed to be violating the securities laws, unless they are able to effectively rebut the said presumption.
According to Sebi's consultation paper, a repetitive pattern of trading activity by a person or