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Sebi Bets Big On Tech, Shortlists IBM India, Infy & Wipro For Data Analytics Project
Sebi Bets Big On Tech, Shortlists IBM India, Infy & Wipro For Data Analytics Project

Sebi Bets Big On Tech, Shortlists IBM India, Infy & Wipro For Data Analytics Project

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Key takeaways

  • Sebi has shortlisted eight companies, including Infosys, Wipro, and IBM India, for a data analytics project aimed at tracking market manipulations.
  • The regulator's initiative responds to technological advancements and aims to enhance its analytical capabilities with advanced tools.
  • Sebi plans to invest ₹500 crores in information technology over the next five years, including a data lake project.
  • The project will focus on developing models and automating data extraction from documents filed with Sebi.
  • Sebi's goal is to predict and mitigate risks associated with insider trading and front running through enhanced data analytics.
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Sebi has shortlisted around eight companies, including Infosys, Wipro and IBM India, in order to implement a data analytics project through which the regulator wants to track possible market manipulations such as insider trading and front running.

This move is part of Sebi's efforts to address the challenges arising out of technological advancements in the markets. In November, the regulator had invited expression of interest (EoI) from "reputed and reliable solution providers for implementation of data analytics project and building of data models at Sebi".

The analytics/model development would include developing new models, implementing analytics project, establishing linkages between various entities in the market, automated extraction of details from documents filed with Sebi, and prediction of market manipulations such as insider trading and front running.

Accordingly, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) invited bids from companies to provide such services.

After evaluating the responses, the regulator in his latest notice said that it had shortlisted eight firms — PWC, Capgemini Technology Services India, Decimal Point Analytics, Wipro, IBM India, NEC Technologies India, Hewlett Packard Enterprise India and Infosys for further process.

In November, Sebi Chairman Ajay Tyagi announced that the regulator plans to spend ₹500 crores on information technology in the next five years as well as have a data lake project.

The project is aimed at augmenting analytical capability at Sebi with advanced analytical tools such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, deep learning, big data analytics, pattern recognition, processing of structured and unstructured data, text mining and natural language processing.

Besides, the regulator, in its annual report for 2018-19, had said it intends to deploy data analytics and new generation technologies to deal with various challenges in the market.

As per the report, the regulator would continue to strengthen market supervision through steps such as technology solutions being built to achieve the objective of identifying non-compliance and assisting in the investigation.

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