New Delhi, July 9 -- The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance is expected to complete the clause-by-clause examination of the proposed Securities Market Code Bill on Thursday, with only around 25 clauses remaining after discussions with the government, Committee Chairman Bhartruhari Mahtab said.

Speaking to ANI after the committee meeting, Mahtab said the government had responded to the committee's queries on the remaining provisions of the Bill, allowing discussions to move forward.

"There were some leftover clauses, around 45 clauses were there and we have completed 20 of them. There were differences of opinion with the government relating to acceptability of our suggestion and now government has come up with number of suggesti...