Sebi considers clearing house interoperability Sebi’s plan of clearing house interoperability is aimed at reducing stock market trading costs and minimising trading outage The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is weighing interoperability of clearing houses and lower margin requirements in an attempt to reduce trading costs and minimise the impact of trading halts, four people aware of the matter said. “The issue was discussed extensively by an internal Sebi committee on secondary market on 8 March, which discussed removing the operational and technical constraints in implementing the proposal,” said the first of the four people, all of whom spoke under condition of anonymity. The market regulator has been weighing the idea for several years, and has lately revived discussions to help soften some of the impact from the return of LTCG tax, a second person said. Clearing and settlement of share transactions on stock exchanges happens at clearing houses, which are ru