Market maker

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

• Accredited InvestorAn investor certified by an accreditation agency as meeting SEBI's income or net-worth tests, and therefore allowed into products on relaxed terms — including below the Rs 1 crore AIF floor.
• 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company in the six months before the act put them, or could reasonably be expected to put them, in a position to access unpublished price sensitive information.
• Fit and proper personThe character and record test in Schedule II of the SEBI (Intermediaries) Regulations, 2008 that an AIF's applicant, sponsor and manager must satisfy for registration and must keep satisfying afterwards.
• Mis-sellingSelling securities or securities services by knowingly making a false statement, hiding material facts or risk, or not taking reasonable care that the product suits the buyer — an unfair trade practice.
• NovationThe clearing corporation stepping into the middle of every trade — becoming the buyer to every seller and the seller to every buyer — so that neither side carries the other's default risk.
• Professional Clearing MemberA clearing member — typically a bank or custodian — who clears and settles trades for other trading members and institutional clients but is not itself a trading member of the exchange.