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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company in the six months before the act put them, or could reasonably be expected to put them, in a position to access unpublished price sensitive information.
• Graded Surveillance MeasuresAn exchange surveillance framework that flags small companies whose valuation is out of line with their fundamentals and imposes trading restrictions to warn investors off.
• InsiderAnyone who is a connected person, or who simply possesses or has access to unpublished price sensitive information — possession alone is enough, with no relationship to the company required.
• Investor CharterSEBI's published statement of what an investor is entitled to from an intermediary — the services, the rights, the dos and don'ts, and a table of activities with the timeline each one must be completed in.
• 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.