Central Depository Services (India) Ltd

Summary

Central Depository Services (India) Limited (CDSL) is one of Indias leading securities depositories. The company was initially promoted by the BSE Ltd., which thereafter divested its stake to leading banks. All leading stock exchanges like the BSE Ltd., National Stock Exchange and Metropolitan Stock Exchange of India have established connectivity with CDSL. CDSL offers other online services such as e-voting, e-Locker, National Academy Depository, easi (Electronic Access to Security Information), easiest (Electronic Access to Securities Information and Execution of Secured Transaction) and mobile application (myeasi, m-voting). The company offers services to several sub-sectors of the Indian securities and financial services market including capital markets, mutual funds and insurance companies.CDSL has high stability of operating income from the fixed annual charges collected from the registered companies and transaction-based fees collected from Depository Participants. Transaction charges are levied by the depositories, subject to prior approval of SEBI. The company offers dematerialisation for a wide spectrum of securities including equity shares, preference shares and bonds of public (listed and unlisted) and private companies, units of mutual funds, government securities, commercial papers and certificates of deposits. As on 30 November 2018, CDSL had 16.49 million investor accounts (excluding closed accounts). The company has a wide network of Depository Participants... Read More