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Technical glitches that bring stock exchanges to a grinding halt are supposed to be rare, once in a blue moon events. Right?
Not if you take into account the frequency with which they have been happening in the recent past at the National Stock Exchange—India’s largest in terms of total and average daily turnover of shares.
NSE has witnessed two major glitches and seven smaller ones in the last four years. This has led to questions being raised about its technical solidity as an institution. Yet, strangely, not once has the exchange mustered up the courage to disclose the loss …

Thinly traded listed entities have long served as breeding grounds for stock manipulation, hurting investors. The regulator, the NSE and BSE now want to fix things by focusing on efficient delisting.
The newly announced levy on UPI payments undermines the very foundation of using digital payments for stock market investing. Brokers are in a tizzy.
India’s second-largest brokerage by active clients wants to handle IPOs as a merchant banker. But gaining a foothold in the highly competitive sector is easier said than done.