Sebi allows exit to Inter-connected Stock Exchange as bourse

Capital market regulator Sebi today allowed Inter-connected Stock Exchange (ISE) to exit stock bourse business.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said that ISE has substantially complied with the conditions for its exit as per the regulator's framework and therefore "is a fit case to allow exit."
According to an order, Sebi said ISE complied with the regulator's exit guidelines and made payment of necessary dues to the regulator, including 10 per cent of the listing fee and the annual regulatory fee.
Sebi said that among other things, the stock exchange has complied with the guidelines wherein it has stated that there are no arbitration disputes /investor complaints pending against it.

"From the valuation report and undertaking of ISE, it is observed that all the known liabilities have been brought out and there is no other future liability that is known as on date," Sebi said.
The regulator has asked the ISE to change its name and not to use the expression "stock exchange" or any variant of this expression in its name, among other things.

This is the fifth stock exchange to exit under this policy.
The ISE was granted recognition as a stock exchange on November 18, 1998. As per Sebi, the recognition of ISE as a stock exchange was last renewed for a period of one year on November 18, 2013.

Sebi, in May 2012, had issued the guidelines for exit of stock exchanges. This contained details of the conditions for exit of de-recognised or non-operational stock exchanges interalia including treatment of assets of the bourse and a facility of dissemination board for companies listed exclusively on such exchanges, while taking care of the interest of Investors.
Following this, ISE made a request to Sebi for its exit as stock exchange in May this year.
Earlier, Sebi had allowed Hyderabad Securities and Enterprise and Coimbatore Stock Exchange to exit as a bourse.