MCX-SX cash turnover rises 4.25% in Aug despite NSEL crisis

MCX-SX will be up for a license renewal before Sebi this month

As crisis continues to engulf National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL), the stock trading turnover at MCX-SX, promoted by the same group, rose by 4.25% to Rs 1,085 crore.

The licence of MCX-SX is coming up for renewal before Sebi later this month.

As per latest data available with MCX-SX, the cash segment equity turnover increased to Rs 1,085.7 crore.

However, the cash market turnover had fallen sharply in July to Rs 1,041.4 crore, after crossing Rs 2,000 crore mark in May and had nearly touched Rs 3,000 crore figure in June.

MCX-SX began operations as a full-fledged stock exchange in February this year and will be up for a license renewal this month.

However, its equity derivative segment turnover declined by 29.3% to Rs 23,105 crore in August.

As many as 8.61 lakh derivative contracts were traded on MCX-SX' platform in August.

The equity derivative segment had witnessed a growth of over 100% to Rs 32,686 crore in July, 2013, as per market regulator Sebi.

Financial Technologies-promoted, NSEL, is presently facing a crisis of settling Rs 5,600 crore dues to 148 members/brokers, representing 13,000 investor clients, after its trade was suspended on July 31 by government orders.

Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) and Financial Technologies together hold 9.97% shareholding in MCX-SX, as on quarter-ended June 30, 2013.

In July, Hyderabad accounted for the largest share in MCX-SX cash turnover at 34.4% followed by Delhi at 22.8%, as per market regulator Sebi's data.