SEBI Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey on Monday said the markets regulator will soon amend its rules to prohibit the use of current or live market data in investor-education material, allowing only past market data for such purposes.

Speaking on the sidelines of an event at the National Stock Exchange, Pandey acknowledged that two SEBI circulars dealing with the use of live data for educational content had created “inconsistency,” and said the regulator would fix the issue shortly.

“It is true that there has been an inconsistency in two of our circulars dealing with live data. We will get the consistency on it. Only past market data will be used for educational purposes; current data should not be used,” Pandey said.

He stressed that there is no “regulatory vacuum” around educational content

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