Fears around artificial intelligence (AI) sparked a global selloff in information technology (IT) stocks, dragging down domestic software shares and prompting the heaviest foreign portfolio investor (FPI) outflows since the second half of July 2025.
The first day of the year 2026 was positive for the debt market with foreign investors buying a net domestic debt of Rs 7,524 crore, the highest single-day inflow since May 29 last year.
In the mid-1990s, when the shares of listed companies first began to be held in electronic form, they accounted for less than 1 per cent of the stocks bought and sold on the stock exchanges. This climbed to 99.5 per cent by 2001.
Foreign investors pulled out Rs 17,955 crore (Rs 2 billion) from Indian equities in the first two weeks of this month, taking the total outflow to Rs 1.6 lakh crore (Rs 18.4 billion) in 2025.' This sharp withdrawal follows a net outflow of Rs 3,765 crore in November, extending the pressure on domestic equity markets.
Shares of Adani group companies witnessed a massive drubbing in morning trade on Monday, tumbling up to 25 per cent, amid reports that the National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) has frozen certain FPIs accounts that have holding in some of these firms.
Foreign investment in bonds issued by Indian corporates touched a 10-year high in May at 20,996 crore, driven by $3.35 billion fundraise by the Shapoorji Pallonji (SP) group, which saw infusion from Deutsche Bank, BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, Davidson Kempner, and Cerberus Capital, among others. The SP group sold three-year bonds, offering 19.75 per cent yield compounded annually and payable at maturity.
Capital markets regulator Sebi has kept in 'abeyance' the proposed initial share sale of securities depository NSDL. However, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) did not clarify further. The National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) filed its preliminary papers with the capital markets regulator on July 7.
Global fund managers witnessed one of their largest-ever declines in assets under custody (AUC) during the ongoing correction in the Indian markets, as stocks came under pressure from foreign outflows and the weakening rupee.
Sebi, in its first-of-its-kind disgorgement order passed at the end of November last year, had asked the two depositories and 10 entities to pay Rs 115.81 crore (Rs 1.15 billion).
Sebi has directed the depositories to ask all the depository participants to examine the origin of accounts that did not comply with the requirement for Permanent Account Number.
About 48 lakh demat accounts have been frozen by the two depositories, National Securities Depository Ltd and Central Depository Services Ltd, because investors failed to submit Income Tax Department's PANs.
In its judgment the tribunal said that all the accused entities should be given a chance for hearing, besides asking Sebi to establish whether these entities have made any unlawful gains through the IPO scam, which saw several entities cornering huge allotments during initial share issuances by applying for shares through thousands of illegal accounts.
After dematerialising crores of shares over the past seven years, the National Securities Depository Ltd is set to extend the service to other financial instruments.
With rising instances of non-compliance with rules, the country's top depository National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) has revised the penalty imposed on erring market participants, which came into effect from May 1.
Rai, who is as tall as Bhave at 5 feet 11 inches, has always been under his shadow, though he has been with NSDL since its inception 11 years ago. Only time will prove if he can grow as tall as Bhave in stature.
When shares in the electronic form are available with the depositories, it acts as primary evidence for those who hold the shares.
The government favours 100 per cent foreign direct investment in the pension sector, which will have a "limited" number of fund managers, a top finance ministry official said on Monday.
Chandrasekhar Bhaskar Bhave has always tried to avoid controversy, but that's something that has followed him like a shadow in the last three years of his professional career.
The finance ministry on Thursday appointed National Securities Depository Ltd to provide PAN cards to new taxpayers in 139 cities from next week.
Interim pension regulator Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority has appointed National Securities Depositories Ltd as an agency to track the pension records of those under the new pension scheme.
C B Bhave, chairman and managing director of National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL), is believed to be leading the race for the sixth chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi).
The govt is likely to announce the new Sebi chief by Feb 10 as interviews for the position is over. Six people have been interviewed.
Details of the hearing could not be ascertained. Last month, Sebi had dismissed the recommendations made by a committee in two of three matters filed on the subject.
The Securities Appellate Tribunal has adjourned the first hearing of National Securities Depository Ltd's appeal against Sebi's interim order on the IPO scam as the market regulator could not hire a senior counsel to argue its case.
Shares of Adani group companies witnessed a massive drubbing in morning trade on Monday, tumbling up to 25 per cent, amid reports that the National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) has frozen certain FPIs accounts that have holding in some of these firms.
The number of dematerialised (demat) accounts required to hold shares and other securities in electronic format rose by 3.1 million in April, bringing the total tally to a fresh record of 154.5 million. Since December last year, the new additions have consistently remained above the 3 trillion mark, a sign that the stock markets continue to attract new investors despite a spike in volatility.
The National Securities Depository Ltd has been asked to start the online PAN Book from April to enable assesses to see their tax filing records on the Internet.
Markets regulator Sebi has ordered the attachment of bank accounts and shares and mutual fund holdings of absconding diamantaire Mehul Choksi to recover dues totalling Rs 2.1 crore in a case of violation of insider trading rules in the shares of Gitanjali Gems.
Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) remained net buyers for the third month in a row by investing Rs 68,558 crore in Indian markets as global investors continued betting on emerging markets. For the equity segment, this is the highest quantum of money invested ever since the FPI data has been made available by the National Securities Depository Ltd. The second highest amount into equities was invested by FPIs in November, when they had pumped in Rs 60,358 crore.
Billionaire Gautam Adani's group on Monday said it has written confirmation that accounts of three foreign funds that are among its top shareholders are not frozen and reports to the contrary are "blatantly erroneous and misleading". Shares of Adani group companies plunged on Monday after reports that the National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) froze the accounts of the three foreign funds that are among the top stakeholders in the firms. Adani Enterprises, the conglomerate's flagship company, as also Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, Adani Green Energy Ltd, Adani Transmission Ltd, Adani Power and Adani Total Gas Ltd in identical filings to the stock exchanges said the reports of NSDL freezing accounts of Albula Investment Fund, Cresta Fund and APMS Investment Fund holding shares in the group firms were "blatantly erroneous and is done to deliberately mislead the investing community."
The enforcement agency is looking to ensure that no big deals or transactions, such as the one Mallya struck with Diageo for Rs 500 crore, take place.
With growing capital markets and business friendly climate, nearly 1.4 lakh investor accounts were opened on an average every month in the last one year.
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