(Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday said it had been given no proposals by any brokerage to withdraw a plan to end margin trading by year's end, which has frustrated brokers by dampening trading volumes and prices this year.
"We have not still got any request coming from anyone. I have not got any proposals," SEC Director General Malik Cader told Reuters. Speculation the regulator may back off on the margin trading ban fuelled a 6.8 percent rise in four sessions on the Colombo Stock Exchange this week. (Reporting by Shihar Aneez, Editing by Bryson Hull)