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Sebi cancels Emkay Commotrade license for trading illegal paired contracts
Capital markets regulator Sebi on Friday cancelled the registration of Emkay Commotrade for facilitating its clients to trade in illegal 'paired contracts' on the National Spot Exchange Ltd (now defunct).
"The noticee (Emkay Commotrade) by providing access for taking exposure to 'paired contracts' and did not have regulatory approval, thereby raises doubts on the competence of the noticee to act as a registered securities market intermediary.
"The actions of the noticee have been and could be detrimental to the interest of the securities market and accordingly the noticee can no longer be called a 'fit and proper person' for holding the certificate of registration as a broker in the securities market," Sebi's Executive Director VS Sundaresan said in the order.
The regulator has asked the broker to allow its existing clients or transfer their securities or funds held in its custody within 15 days.
In case of failure of any clients to withdraw or transfer their securities or funds ..