…….Pratik Shah
Adding more to series of articles on Securities Market, I would like to list down developments which will help our market to scale new heights
Future Securities Market Developments to be undertaken from an institutional investor perspective
- Seamless STP from start to finish encompassing Front end to Middle Office to Back Office. There should not be any breaks in STP in the entire settlement cycle. Advanced Reforms required both in Equity and Debt market
- Introduction of Corporate Debt trading platform given that now we have a central clearing house for Corporate Debt and Money Market instruments (NSCCL/IICL)
- Online Mutual fund platform through the stock exchange infrastructure
- Developments in IPO Market- Primary market today is paper based with a wider time frame. Technical automation will be a big enabler for the primary market
- Single Pay date concept will be a big advantage especially for the investors to manage their cash flows and market can offer products like Contractual Income.
- Early remittances on T+2 for foreign investors
- No boundaries. Our Depositories and Clearing Houses can become international depositories in lines with Euro Clear and Clearstream. However, full rupee convertibility will be a big enabler for this development
- Penetrating use of new products like Interest rate futures, Currency Futures, SLB, etc
- Implementation of physical settlement of equity derivatives
- Implementation of Smart Order Routing
- Commodity markets have traditionally been quite volatile. It is important to allow institutional investors to invest in commodity markets as they bring significant trading experience.
- More and more investment in technology for speeding up settlements, risk containment measures and seamless connectivity between market intermediaries
Other Recommendations for a robust securities market (Source: recent PwC report)
Investor education and regulation of mutual fund distributors
Allowing AMCs the flexibility to charge fees
Innovative products across different asset classes including operationalisation of REMFs
Amending tax regime to encourage domestic AMCs to manage foreign funds from India
Allowing higher investment by domestic institutional investors such as insurance companies, pension funds and provident funds to make investments in capital markets
Make tax regime friendly for issuers/investors of IDRs
Make implementation of proposal of SME stock exchange effective
Developing a legal and regulatory framework for Islamic finance and structure new capital market products that are Shariah compliant
Allowing institutional investors to participate in commodity markets
The good attempt to upgrade our securities market, from depository prospective we need lot to be done comarpe to euroclear & clearstream. The most important DVP/RVP must for the market were RBI,SEBI need to act and implement policies to accomdate the same and full convertability of Rupee to attract foreign issuers.
The Corporate aCtion need much of upgradtion especially related to cash CA, Rights issues and also IPO online.
Great effort keep it up
Hi shailesh
How are you? Long time…you are with Depository in dubai right? Thanks for your feedback
yes working for depository in dubai…. i did not get u did we know because from the snap i did not recognise.