Commodity traders’ body seeks relief for broking firms
April 05, 2021
The State brought stockbroking, depositories and mutual funds under essential services during the nation-wide lockdown last year - Emmanual Yogini
The State brought stockbroking, depositories and mutual funds under essential services during the nation-wide lockdown last year - Emmanual Yogini×
The Commodity Participants’ Association of India (CPAI) has urged the Maharashtra government to classify stock and commodity broking under “essential services” so that the support work can go on without any hindrance.
In the wake of the fresh round of Covid-19, the Maharashtra government has announced restrictions from April 5.
The State government has allowed both the leading stock exchanges – NSE and BSE – to remain operational and to ensure the smooth functioning of the exchanges, undisrupted broking services must also be facilitated, said the association.
Commodity players urge FM to cut trading costs
April 01, 2021
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The Commodity Participants’ Association of India has sought the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s intervention to rationalise the peak margin imposed by SEBI from December last year and rationalise cost of trading to salvage the sinking trading volumes on the commodity exchanges.
The regulator had implemented a peak margin on clients from last December to reduce leverage on intra-day positions in phases.
Shrinking volumes
As per SEBI norms, a peak margin of 25 per cent was levied on clients starting December and it will increase by 25 per cent progressively every quarter hitting the peak of 100 per cent by September quarter. Average daily turnover on exchanges has shrunk 27 per cent in last two months. Equity markets have also seen a sharp fall of 19 per cent in Average Daily Turnover (ADT) in this period, while equity futures volumes are down by 14 per cent.