Market Operations - Investigation Department

Circular No. MCX-SX/ID/613/2011

July 29, 2011

Modification of Client Codes of Non-Institutional Trades

In terms of provisions of the Rules, Bye-laws and Regulations of the Exchange and pursuant to SEBI circular no: CIR/DNPD/06/2011 dated July 05, 2011 (Annexure 1), the Members of the Exchange are notified that the following penalty structure for the modifications of client code in the Currency Derivatives Segment (CDS) is being made applicable with effect from August 01, 2011:
 
‘a’ as % of ‘b’ Penalty as % of ‘a’
≤ 5 1
> 5 2
where
a = Value (turnover) of non-institutional trades where client codes have been modified by a trading member in a segment during a month.
b = Value (turnover) of non-institutional trades of the trading member in the segment during the month.
 
The Members may further note the following:
  1. With effect from August 1, 2011, the trade modification facility will be available only on the Member Admin Terminal. Members who wish to extend the said facility additionally to their users, are required to send the request in the format as detailed in Annexure 2.
  2. The Exchange shall conduct a special inspection of the trading member to ascertain whether the modifications of client codes are being carried on as per the strict objective criteria set by the Stock Exchange, if ‘a’ as % of ‘b’, as defined above, exceeds 1% during a month and take appropriate disciplinary action, if any deficiency is observed.
  3. In addition to point no. 2, in all cases where ‘a’ as % of ‘b’ (where ‘a’ & ‘b’ are as specified in the above-referred SEBI circular) is greater than 1% and there being four instances in the last six months, the Exchange may take further stringent penalty/ action as deemed necessary.
  4. All members would be required to give an undertaking every six months confirming that they are satisfied that all instances of trade modification done in their firm are genuine and the said facility is used only to rectify a genuine error in entry of client code at the time of placing / modifying the related order.
Members are requested to take note of the above and are advised to exercise due care and caution while modifying the client codes to ensure that the said facility shall be used only in case of rectification of genuine errors in entry of client code (like punching error/typing error of client codes, entry of wrong client code due to communication error) at the time of placing / modifying the related order.
 
For any clarifications, contact Customer Service Desk at 022-67319010 or send an email at customerservice@mcx-sx.com.
 

For and on behalf of
MCX Stock Exchange Ltd.

Himanshu Ashar
Asst. Vice President

 
 
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