VISION
To follow highest standards of ethics and compliances while facilitating the trading by clients in securities in a fair and transparent manner, so as to contribute in creation of wealth for investors.
MISSION
- To provide high quality and dependable service through innovation, capacity enhancement and use of technology.
- To establish and maintain a relationship of trust and ethics with the investors.
- To observe highest standard of compliances and transparency.
- To always keep ‘protection of investors’ interest’ as goal while providing service.To hold securities of investors in dematerialised form and facilitate its transfer, while ensuring safekeeping of securities and protecting interest of investors.
Services provided to Investors
- Execution of trades on behalf of investors.
- Issuance of Contract Notes.
- Issuance of intimations regarding margin due payments.
- Facilitate execution of early pay-in obligation instructions.
- Settlement of client’s funds.
- Intimation of securities held in Client Unpaid Securities Account (CUSA) Account.
- Issuance of retention statement of funds.
- Risk management systems to mitigate operational and market risk.
- Facilitate client profile changes in the system as instructed by the client.
- Information sharing with the client w.r.t. exchange circulars.
- Redressal of Investor’s grievances.
Rights of Investors
- Ask for and receive information from a firm about the work history and background of the person handling your account, as well as information about the firm itself.
- Receive complete information about the risks, obligations, and costs of any investment before investing.
- Receive recommendations consistent with your financial needs and investment objectives.
- Receive a copy of all completed account forms and agreements.
- Receive account statements that are accurate and understandable.
- Understand the terms and conditions of transactions you undertake.
- Access your funds in a timely manner and receive information about any restrictions or limitations on access.
- Receive complete information about maintenance or service charges, transaction or redemption fees, and penalties.
- Discuss your grievances with compliance officer of the firm and receive prompt attention to and fair consideration of your concerns.
Various activities of Stock Brokers with timelines
S. No. |
Activity |
Expected Timelines |
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1 | KYC entered into KRA System and CKYCR | 10 days of account opening | |
2 | Client Onboarding | Immediate, but not later than one week | |
3 | Order Execution | Immediate on receipt of order, but not later than the same day |
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4 | Allocation of unique client code | Before Trading | |
5 | Copy of duly completed Client Registration Documents to clients | 7 days from the date of upload of Unique Client Code to the Exchange by the trading member |
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6 | Issuance of contract notes | 24 hours of execution of trades | |
7 | Collection of upfront margin from client | Before initiation of trade | |
8 | Issuance of intimations regarding other margin due payments | At the end of the T day | |
9 | Settlement of client funds | 30 days / 90 days for running account settlement (RAS) as per the preference of client. If consent not given for RAS – within 24 hours of pay-out |
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10 | ‘Statement of Accounts’ for Funds, Securities and Commodities | Weekly basis (Within four trading days of following week) | |
11 | Issuance of retention statement of funds/commodities | 5 days from the date of settlement | |
12 | Issuance of Annual Global Statement | 30 days from the end of the financial year | |
13 | Investor grievances redressal | 30 days from the receipt of the complaint |
DOs and DON’Ts for Investors
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DONTs |
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Grievance Redressal Mechanism
Timelines for complaint resolution process at Stock Exchanges against stock brokers
S No |
Type of Activity |
Timelines for activity |
1 | Receipt of Complaint | Day of complaint (C Day). |
2 | Additional information sought from the investor, if any, and provisionally forwarded to stock broker. | C + 7 Working days. |
3 | Registration of the complaint and forwarding to the stock broker. | C+8 Working Days i.e. T day. |
4 | Amicable Resolution. | T+15 Working Days. |
5 | Refer to Grievance Redressal Committee (GRC), in case of no amicable resolution. | T+16 Working Days. |
6 | Complete resolution process post GRC. | T + 30 Working Days. |
7 | In case where the GRC Member requires additional information, GRC order shall be completed within. | T + 45 Working Days. |
8 | Implementation of GRC Order. | On receipt of GRC Order, if the order is in favour of the investor, debit the funds of the stock broker. Order for debit is issued immediately or as per the directions given in GRC order. |
9 | In case the stock broker is aggrieved by the GRC order, will provide intention to avail arbitration | Within 7 days from receipt of order |
10 | If intention from stock broker is received and the GRC order amount upto Rs.20 lakhs | Investor is eligible for interim relief from Investor Protection Fund (IPF).The interim relief will be 50% of the GRC order amount or Rs.2 lakhs whichever is less. The same shall be provided after obtaining an Undertaking from the investor. |
11 | Stock Broker shall file for arbitration | Within 6 months from the date of GRC recommendation |
12 | In case the stock broker does not file for arbitration within 6 months | The GRC order amount shall be released to the investor after adjusting the amount released as interim relief, if any. |
Handling of Investor’s claims / complaints in case of default of a Trading Member / Clearing Member (TM/CM)
Default of TM/CM
Following steps are carried out by Stock Exchange for benefit of investor, in case stock broker defaults:
- Circular is issued to inform about declaration of Stock Broker as Defaulter.
- Information of defaulter stock broker is disseminated on Stock Exchange website.
- Public Notice is issued informing declaration of a stock broker as defaulter and inviting claims within specified period.
- Intimation to clients of defaulter stock brokers via emails and SMS for facilitating lodging of claims within the specified period
Following information is available on Stock Exchange website for information of investors:
- Norms for eligibility of claims for compensation from IPF.
- Claim form for lodging claim against defaulter stock broker.
- FAQ on processing of investors’ claims against Defaulter stock broker.
- Provision to check online status of client’s claim
Level 3 – The complaint not redressed at Stock Broker / Stock Exchange level, may be lodged with SEBI on SCORES (a web based centralized grievance redressal system of SEBI) @ https://scores.gov.in/scores/Welcome.html