In order to safeguard investors from cyber frauds, the market regulator, Sebi has rolled out a new sub-system of UPI Validated UPI handles have been enabled for securities market, Tuhin Kanta Pandey, Chairman, SEBI said in Kautilya Economic Conclave 2025. According to the chairman, along with the SEBI Check facility, any investor can easily distinguish and verify from his/her mobile phone in seconds whether the bank account which is sought to receive credit for investments is a genuine account of any regulated intermediary or not. The market regulator is also actively monitoring Social Media Platforms for misleading, manipulative and illegal contents on social media relating to the securities market and reducing the risk arising out of advices by unregistered finfluencers.

To protect the funds of investors from being misused by stock brokers, SEBI has introduced a framework by which stock brokers (SBs) and clearing members (CMs) shall upstream all client funds to clearing corporations (CCs), said Pandey.