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Indian securities regulator tightens commodity market risk-management controls

( September 2, 2016, 10:02 GMT | Official Statement) -- The Securities and Exchange Board of India, or SEBI, has released new measures to streamline and upgrade risk management in commodity derivatives markets. Exchanges in the commodities segment must now impose adequate concentration margins to cover the longer periods of risk involved in the liquidation of concentrated positions in any commodity. Exchanges will take primary responsibility for risk management and must impose higher/additional margins where there is excessive market volatility or higher-risk elements. They are also expected to revise regulations in line with the provisions set out in a circular, and to penalize exchange members who have logged repeated shortfalls in margins or pay-ins beyond a certain threshold in a given month.  The regulator's full circular follows:...

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