KYC misuse: Sebi hauls up analyst

MUMBAI: Sebi has cancelled the certificate of registration of a research analyst, Poorushkhan, after finding out that his KYC documents were used by someone else to obtain the regulator’s Research Analyst certificate. People running an unregistered investment advisory outfit named Options Research used documents of Poorushkhan, who ran a grocery shop and had nothing to do with stock market, derivatives etc, Sebi order showed.