Quarterly Compliance Payout
Quarterly compliance payout in trading is a regulation issued by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) that requires stock brokers to remit any unutilized cash from a client’s trading account to the client’s primary registered bank account on a quarterly basis.
Launched in 2009, the requirement was designed to improve the security and transparency of client funds by ensuring idle balances are not retained indefinitely by brokers.
Transfers are carried out in the first quarter months—January, April, July and October—commonly on the first Friday or Saturday of the month, depending on the broker’s implementation and the client’s selected payout frequency. When the scheduled payout date coincides with a trading holiday, the settlement is executed on the previous trading day.