National Securities Depository (NSDL) celebrated the completion of 20 years of service to the Indian capital market. U.K. Sinha, chairman, SEBI, was the chief guest on the occasion. G.V. Nageswara Rao, MD & CEO, NSDL said NSDL always being in the forefront of driving digital capital markets in India and it will continue walking the path of innovation and modernization to bring more transparency, more convenience to investors while focusing on enhancing safety and security of capital markets in India. NSDL today is one of the leading depositories in the world with several key parameters like custody value, services provided and network of service centres. The value of securities held in NSDL system as on 19 January 19 2017 was Rs 134 lakh crore, which represents 90% market share in custody value, 97% in debt securities and over 99% in terms of Foreign Portfolio Investment in India. It processes over 284 million transactions and sends over 54 million SMS alerts in a year.
