EXIT ORDER IN RESPECT OF UNIVERSAL COMMODITY EXCHANGE LIMITED

Press Release
Securities and Exchange Board of India
Mar 19, 2018
PR No.: 8/2018

EXIT ORDER IN RESPECT OF UNIVERSAL COMMODITY EXCHANGE LIMITED

 Whole Time Member, SEBI, has passed an Order on March 16, 2018 providing exit to the Universal Commodity Exchange Limited (UCX). UCX is the sixth Commodity Derivatives Exchange / deemed stock exchange to exit after the merger of Forward Markets Commission (FMC) with SEBI.

SEBI, vide its Circular dated January 11, 2016, had issued Guidelines for the exit of Commodity Derivatives Exchanges. The circular prescribed, inter alia, various conditions for compliance covering various aspects including treatment of assets of non-operational stock exchanges, complete discharge of pending statutory liabilities, outstanding liability towards brokers and clients, redressal of all pending investors’ disputes / complaints, etc, on compliance of which, the exit order was issued to UCX.

Further, the Income Tax Authorities, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Corporate Affairs and the State Government of Maharashtra are being intimated about the exit of UCX, for appropriate action, at their end.

The full text of the exit order is available on the website www.sebi.gov.in