26/11/2019
What is karvy scam?
We will have to come to know the the facts before getting in to the details which are being produced below:
1)Customer, while opening a demat account, has to get the power of account signed which is basically done for the convenience or ease of trading so that when customer sells the shares he would not to Inform depositors to deduct such quantity of shares which are sold as this is done by intermediaries on behalf of their client due to POA.
Further,many a customer does not know while account opening that they are being signed on such kind of "Power of Attorney
In earlier days, we had to place the slip mentioning that so and so shares have to be deducted from our account and queries were to be done why do you want to transfer the shares and we had to satisfy the concerning agency. But gone are those days due to so called easiness of trading.
Due to taking the shield from such kind of Loopholes this scam happened:
Loopholes No.1
As per the Media Reports and various analysis made by experts it is believed that first they targeted the Dormant account in which no transactions were happened.
They just transferred the shares in a few quantilty initially just to come to know whether clients get aware for the same or not.
After conducting the same,it was observed by them, this modus Operandi is not detected by the clients so they just got lacuna in the system being targeting dormant accounts. Sebi in its interim order observed that prima facie a net amount of Rs 1,096 crore had been transferred by Karvy Stock Broking to its group company, Karvy Realty.
WHAT ONE NEED TO DO TO AVOID SUCH INSTANCES:
1) Do not keep your account dormant and check & get the updated your details.
2) Check any mail related to trade executed and Demat related transactions thoroughly and bring any anomaly you find in the same to the broker.
3)Do not leave your stock in brokers pool account for which you need to check fund or security balances for which mail is shared by Brokers.
4) Please check the report which is shared by NSDL/CDSL once in a month mentioning no of securities held/traded and other details.This is generally send between 8 to 10th of next month mentioning the details of last month transactions.
Loophole No 2
How such system was not developed in the one of biggest and reputed brokerage house that client has to be contacted for every trades he executes?
If it has not been developed then what about instructions of sebi regarding it and why auditor did not raise the issue??
This will be taken by the authority quite seriously as why the procedures were not followed and how did they escape from compliance prescribed?
It is suggested that opt for depositories at PSU or reputed private brokers.
Would like to mention there is no payment default in this case so one may breathe a sigh of relief.
As investor protection funds will be used and in shares it is easy to find audit trail so Sebi will go in to deeper and get the money back from culprits.
What Karvy lost:
The bigger problem here is that Karvy has destroyed the client-broker trust and the POA mechanism. Clients would think twice before signing the POA, even the existing ones would be re-thinking their relationship with their broker. After all, Karvy was among the oldest and most reputed brokers and registrars in the country.
As far as Karvy is concerned it will have a lot of explaining to do to its other stakeholders, especially those companies for whom it is a registrar. The trust deficit will be very hard to bridge. The company will have a very difficult task to save its reputation.
What financial market lost :
The Karvy episode is the latest in a series of events that have undermined trust in the country's financial markets. Like it or not, some of the mistrust will affect the activities of other brokers also, particularly the smaller ones.
Is customer at fault in the entire episode??
YES, Clients too are at fault to some extent. To avoid the inconvenience of signing and depositing the transfer slip or even electronically transferring them they agreed to the POA route. Would they have done the same to a bank by giving a blank signed check to their banker and ask him to transfer funds whenever there is a demand? If not then the shares in their Demat account should also be given the same respect as that of cash in their Bank.
What if you are a client of Karvy?
1) Raise complaints at BSE NSE online grievances portal
2) Complain at Scores which is redress system made by sebi
Link being shared :
https://scores.gov.in/
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