Clarification to Circular pertaining to Investor Protection Fund (IPF) and Investor Service Fund (ISF)

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....t: Clarification to Circular pertaining to Investor Protection Fund (IPF) and Investor Service Fund (ISF) 1. SEBI vide circular no. CIR/CDMRD/DEICE/CIR/P/2017/53 dated June 13, 2017, has issued guidelines covering broad areas of Investor Protection Fund and Investor Service Fund. 2. Subsequently, SEBI has received representations from the national commodity derivatives exchanges (NCDEs) for ....

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....search project while according approval to such activity/ project. Further, the Board of the exchange may be apprised of the research programs / activities being undertaken at least once in every quarter or half year of a given financial year. There will be an overall cap on the total amount, not more than 10% of the interest amount of IPF which can be spent on Research activities related....

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....e met utilizing the ISF and not IPF. However since ISF is of recent origin, its corpus may be inadequate. NCDEs have therefore requested to permit utilizing interest on IPF in lieu of ISF for expenditures meant only for ISF. Accordingly, the NCDEs have been granted 3 years period starting April 1st, 2018 to permit utilizing interest on IPF for activities of ISF also. 3. The provisions of this c....