Dealing in Financial Instruments as Principal
LR-1.3.22
Dealing in
financial instruments as principal means buying, selling, subscribing for or underwriting anyfinancial instrument on one's own account.October 2007LR-1.3.23
Rule LR-1.3.22 includes the underwriting of equity and other
financial instruments . The underwriting of loans comes under the activity of providing credit (see Rule LR-1.3.18). It also includes the temporary sale of a financial instrument through a repo transaction.October 2007LR-1.3.24
A person does not carry on an activity specified in Rule LR-1.3.22 if the activity relates to the person issuing his own shares/debentures, warrants or bonds.
October 2007