Technological has impacted every section of society. Even the financial sector too has felt the impact of technology. In the current age of Globalization, markets have become more interconnected. Global financial services like banks, payment and stock exchange are using modern information technology infrastructure to make workflows more efficient and faster. However, in the race to embrace the latest digital technologies, sometimes financial sector institutions don’t pay enough attention to the weakness in IT infrastructure. These loopholes provide an excellent opportunity to the cyber attackers to compromise with institution digital infrastructure and steal their critical data. The global securities market is more vulnerable to the security threat compared to traditional institutions, due to the large numbers of participants and infrastructures in that market, complexities of their interactions, unstructured communication. This provides an excellent opportunity for APT (Advanced persistent threat) groups to exploit. There are more than 60 stock exchanges globally, and more target means more attack. In the case of India, there are mainly two biggest stock exchanges i.e NSE and BSE, where millions of shares are traded on a daily basis.
To check the loopholes in the system, the financial institution does mock tests through mock trading sessions. The exchange with the help of brokers test and verify new products, features or functionality added to their electronic trading platform through these mock trading sessions. Large scale participation of brokers is essential for the success of such a session. For the success of such sessions and more market participants, the exchange is hereby notifying the contingency drills/Mock trading session earlier of the year. Here is a list of NSE Mock trading session of 2020:
| Date | Day |
| January 4, 2020 | Saturday |
| February 08, 2020 | Saturday |
| March 07, 2020 | Saturday |
| April 04, 2020 | Saturday |
| May 09, 2020 | Saturday |
| June 06, 2020 | Saturday |
| July 04, 2020 | Saturday |
| August 08, 2020 | Saturday |
| September 05, 2020 | Saturday |
| October 10, 2020 | Saturday |
| November 07, 2020 | Saturday |
| December 05, 2020 | Saturday |
For more information, it’s better to visit the website of respective exchange, where one will get information regarding the mock trading schedule or in case, if there is any change in the plan.
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