National Securities Depository Ltd

National Security Depository Limited was incorporated on April 27, 2012, as 'NSDL Depository Limited' in Mumbai as a Public Limited Company, pursuant to a Certificate of Incorporation. The Company is a SEBI registered market infrastructure institution (MII) offering a wide range of products and services to the financial and securities markets in India. The Company commenced operations through a Certificate of Commencement of Business dated May 16, 2012, issued by the Registrar of Companies. The depository business has been in operation for more than 26 years, having commenced in November 1996, with the name 'National Securities Depository Limited', which later on was renamed as NSDL e-Governance Infrastructure Limited and is currently known as Protean eGov Technologies Limited. Following introduction of the Depositories Act in 1996, the Company pioneered dematerialization of securities in India in November 1996. Through Scheme of Arrangement, the Depository Undertaking was demerged from Protean and transferred and vested into with Company, as a going concern. Resulting to Scheme of Arrangement, name of Company was changed from 'NSDL Depository Limited' to 'National Securities Depository Limited', vide a fresh Certificate of Incorporation issued by the RoC, on January 3, 2013. As of now, NSDL are the largest depository in India in terms of number of issuers, number of active instruments, market share in demat value of settlement volume and value of assets held under custody. As a depository, Company provide a robust depository framework that enables market participants to participate in the financial and securities markets in India. Their depository facilitates securities to be held in digital form by investors through accounts known as 'Demat Accounts' held through depository participants. This includes securities held in dematerialized form with various asset classes namely equities (listed equity and unlisted equity), preference shares, warrants, funds (mutual funds, REITs, InvITs and AIFs), debt instruments (corporate debt, commercial paper, certificate of deposit, pass through certificate, security receipts, government securities, sovereign gold bonds, municipal debt, treasury bill) and electronic gold receipts. As part of depository business, NSDL operate a centralized digital book-keeping system that facilitates the holders of securities to hold and transfer their securities in electronic form and enables settlement solutions in an efficient and cost-effective manner. It maintain complete records of the ownership of securities held in dematerialised form with them on behalf of the issuer entity. It provide depository services to investors, issuers, depository participants, financial institutions, stockbrokers, custodians, clearing corporations and other market intermediaries and have established an ecosystem for these entities to integrate with their systems. In October 2018, the Company launched a facility for availing digital loans against securities; in 2021, it launched digital commercial paper issuance process. During FY 2022, it launched blockchain based market platform to monitor security and covenants related to issuance of bonds. The Company launched the IPO by issuing 50,145,001 equity shares of face value of Rs 2 each through offer for sale and raised Rs 4010.95 crores in August, 2025. The Company has launched Direct Payout Settlement for securities in FY 2025. In 2026, the network and investor reach has expanded by adding 21 Depository Participants during the year 2026, taking the total to 311. NSDL added Rs 59.3 Lakh gross Beneficial Owner accounts and Rs 49.4 Lakh net accounts. The value of securities held in demat custody stood at approximately Rs 477.3 Lakh Crore as of March 31, 2026, and crossed Rs 520.4 Lakh Crore shortly after the year-end. NSDL also launched a Unified Digital Portal for Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) and Foreign Venture Capital Investors (FVCIs), providing a single-window platform for registration, compliance, and onboarding services. Further, NSDL introduced a digital facility for submission of Form 121 declarations under Section 393(6) of the Income-tax Act, 2025, enabling eligible investors to avail specified tax benefits through a live streaming electronic process. Additionally, the SPEED-e platform has enhanced to allow password-based users to submit off-market transfer instructions online with OTP-based authentication, thereby improving convenience, security, and operational efficiency for investors.