Document Repository platform
The online platform set up by stock exchanges enabling merchant bankers to upload and maintain electronically the documents relied on in due diligence for public issues, which must be kept for a minimum of 8 years.
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
- Compliance OfficerThe separately appointed officer of a merchant banker, listed company or intermediary who monitors compliance with securities law, handles investor grievances, and reports non-compliance to SEBI independently.
- Liquid Net WorthThe part of a merchant banker's net worth deployed in unencumbered liquid assets, counted after a prescribed haircut on each asset type — a second capital test that net worth alone cannot satisfy.
- Merchant bankerA SEBI-registered body corporate engaged in the business of issue management — arranging the selling, buying or subscribing of securities, or acting as manager, consultant or adviser in relation to an issue.
- Principal officerThe named individual at a non-individual intermediary who carries personal regulatory responsibility for the advisory business, and who must personally hold the prescribed qualification and NISM certification.
- SCORESSEBI's centralised web-based system for processing investor complaints, on which the company or intermediary must upload an Action Taken Report and the investor can watch the status online.
Where this is taught
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