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A demat account is an Indian term for a dematerialized account that holds financial securities (equity or debt) digitally for traded shares in the share market.In India, demat accounts are maintained by two depository organizations: the National Securities Depository Limited and the Central Depository Services Limited.
In finance and financial law, dematerialization refers to the substitution of paper-form securities by book-entry securities. This is a form of indirect holding system in which an intermediary, such as a broker or central securities depository, or the issuer (e.g., French system) holds a record of the ownership of shares usually in electronic format.
A central securities depository (CSD) is a specialized financial market infrastructure organization holding securities like shares, either in certificated or uncertificated (dematerialized) form, allowing ownership to be easily transferred through a book entry rather than by a transfer of physical certificates.
National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) is an Indian central securities depository, based in Mumbai.It was established in August 1996 as the first electronic securities depository in India with national coverage. [2]
Dematerialization may refer to: . Dematerialization (art), an idea in conceptual art where the art object is no longer material Dematerialization (economics), the reduction in the quantity of materials required to serve economic functions (doing more with less)
Dematerialization is a term in economics and the social sciences that describes the process of making more goods with less material. [1] The term itself possesses multi-accentuality [definition needed], which allows it to be diversely explained by different fields of social science, such as Mainstream economics, which puts focus on the aspects of technological evolution and market demand ...
The bonds are issued in 1-gram denominations and multiples thereof. Each eligible investor can purchase up to 4 kg per financial year. A demat account is optional; bonds can be held in dematerialized form with a securities depository or tracked by the RBI. [3]
Adoption of book-entry systems among private companies has lagged adoption among public companies, public company transfer agents, and broker-dealers. [2] This may be due to a number of misunderstandings and challenges unique to private company security issuance but, regardless, data suggest adoption of book-entry systems among private companies is growing rapidly.