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As of 31 MAY 2023, Orders of 43 regulators are covered by this website. Click here for details
As of 31 MAY 2023, this website covers the following number of indicted entities/persons:
NO. OF UNIQUE ENTITIES 3,74,205
NO. OF UNIQUE PERSONS 4,25,356
TOTAL 7,99,561
MCA DISQUALIFIED DIRECTORS 3,86,873
MCA DISQUALIFIED DIRECTORS-ASSOCIATED COMPANIES 1,86,755
TOTAL 5,73,628
MCA DEFAULTING COMPANIES 1,29,992
MCA DEFAULTING PERSONS 2,57,494
TOTAL 3,87,486
Mission
To prevent unscrupulous entities/persons from harming investors and thereby help build public confidence in the financial system, enabling greater flow of public investment to the right avenues.
watchoutinvestors.com is a database of economic offenders and aims at alerting and protecting the investors. It is the world’s only national web-based registry of information on entities and persons who:
- have been indicted for an economic malpractice/default and/or
- have been non-compliant of laws/regulations/guidelines and/or
- are no longer in the specified activity
This information which is disorganized, difficult-to-use and is spread across a large number of sources i.e. websites, databases, publications, notifications and orders of the government and of other regulators, organizations, agencies, courts of law, tribunals and commissions, has been aggregated, indexed, standardised, reformatted and re-presented on this website in a user friendly form and manner.
Investors use this information about entities/persons:
- before making any new investments with them
- for continuously reviewing their existing portfolio vis-à-vis such entities/persons
- when dealing with them in any manner
Corporates and market participants use this website for due diligence. This website is also extensively used by various regulatory bodies themselves as also by the media.
