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SEBI Mandates Investor Awareness Messages on Trading Platforms
- •SEBI directs stock brokers to display standardized investor awareness messages on websites and mobile trading applications.
- •The initiative, part of Project Jagrook, coincides with World Investor Week 2026 and builds on a May 2023 mandate for risk disclosures.
- •Broker websites must display awareness messages and existing risk disclosures from October 5-31, 2026, with mandatory landing page display from November 1.
- •For mobile apps, awareness messages are voluntary from October 5-31; mandatory display of awareness messages and risk disclosures on alternate days begins November 1.
- •SEBI will periodically modify the investor awareness creatives shared with intermediaries, while other risk disclosure provisions remain unchanged.
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SEBI has directed all stock brokers to prominently display standardised investor awareness messages on their websites and mobile trading apps as part of Project Jagrook and World Investor Week 2026. For websites, intermediaries must show messages and risk disclosures from October 5 to October 31, 2026, with landing page display becoming mandatory on November 1. For mobile apps, displaying awareness messages is voluntary through October 31, but becomes mandatory on alternate days alongside risk disclosures starting November 1.
Starting November 1, 2026, stock brokers must mandatorily display investor awareness messages and risk disclosures on alternate days on the landing page of their mobile trading apps. Between October 5 and October 31, displaying these awareness messages on mobile apps remains completely voluntary.
The new directive builds directly on SEBI's May 2023 mandate, which originally required stock brokers to display mandatory risk disclosures to their clients. Under the current rollout, these existing risk disclosure provisions continue alongside the new investor awareness messaging guidelines.
