Securities and Alternate Board of India (SEBI) Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey on Saturday warned that any misconduct by market intermediaries with respect to consumer property won’t be tolerated.
He stated that the market regulator has been recurrently taking numerous initiatives in direction of the safety of consumer property, since asset security is essential for buyers to trust within the markets.
“Whereas SEBI ensures that market members are adequately supervised, egregious behaviour of intermediaries with respect to consumer property can’t be dominated out and can’t be tolerated,” Pandey stated on the Mint India Funding Summit and Awards 2025.
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The chairman stated the market regulator has embraced using newest know-how and knowledge analytics to detect market misconduct, equivalent to, insider buying and selling, entrance working, worth manipulation and monetary assertion frauds.
Trades within the secondary market are beneath surveillance every day and alert programs have been put in place to detect suspicious patterns of buying and selling. Market intelligence within the type of buyers complaints in addition to posts on social media additionally kind an essential a part of SEBI’s surveillance mechanism.
“We’re additionally recurrently collaborating with different regulators and with regulation enforcement businesses for pooling of knowledge with the intention to take extra knowledgeable enforcement actions,” Pandey acknowledged.
“I might say that in a dynamic and sophisticated safety market, sustaining market integrity is a unbroken problem,” he stated.
Pandey stated the inventory market regulator has efficiently teamed up with the market infrastructure establishments (MIIs) and market intermediaries to construct sturdy market integrity. SEBI’s initiatives on this regard span a variety — rules, know-how, supervision, surveillance, enforcement, investor consciousness and backbone of investor grievances.
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“Going ahead, we have to consistently replace and innovate in all these areas preserving in thoughts optimum but efficient regulatory stance,” Pandey stated.
Market regulator constructing enforcement capacities
The SEBI chief has additionally taken steps to strengthen its investigation and inspection course of by constructing capability inside inner groups and by counting on know-how for acquiring knowledge and analysing the identical.
The development in power of SEBI’s investigation and enforcement course of may be gauged from the truth that extra entities at the moment are submitting for settlement reasonably than litigating the matter and the settlement proportion has elevated to 40 per cent, Pandey stated.
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