AIBI

This one is not written up yet

The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.

Written up from the same chapter

• Chinese WallAn enforced separation inside a firm between departments holding confidential price-sensitive information and those dealing with clients, sales or public research.
• Connected personA person whose association with a company in the six months before the act put them, or could reasonably be expected to put them, in a position to access unpublished price sensitive information.
• Red Herring ProspectusThe offer document used in a book-built public issue, containing every disclosure a prospectus carries except the final price or number of shares, filed with the Registrar before the issue opens.
• Reverse book buildingThe bidding process by which the exit price in a voluntary delisting is discovered from public shareholders above a fixed floor price, instead of being set by the acquirer.
• Securities Appellate TribunalThe statutory tribunal established under the SEBI Act that hears appeals from orders of SEBI and of its adjudicating officers, which must be filed within 45 days of receipt of the order.
• Structured digital databaseThe tamper-evident internal register every handler of unpublished price sensitive information must maintain, recording the nature of the information and the PAN of everyone who shared it and received it.