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Arun George

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<li>National Securities Depository Limited/<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/national-securities-depository-ltd-nsdl" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:39939:1" rel="noopener">NSDL (NSDL IN)</a> is the largest depository in India. It is seeking to raise US$400 million.     </li>
<li>The depository market in India is a duopoly with high barriers to entry as each of the current depositories is promoted by large institutions.</li>
<li>The bull case rests on outperforming its key peer on several metrics, the core business’s solid performance, signs of margin recovery, cash generation, and no debt.  </li>
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National Securities Depository Limited/NSDL (NSDL IN) is the largest depository in India. It is seeking to raise US$400 million.     
The depository market in India is a duopoly with high barriers to entry as each of the current depositories is promoted by large institutions.
The bull case rests on outperforming its key peer on several metrics, the core business’s solid performance, signs of margin recovery, cash generation, and no debt.  


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Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>Retail investor activity and demat additions slowed sharply in early 2025, with new account openings falling to a multi-year low of 2.3Mn in February.</li>
<li>This signals a broader sentiment reset after a 5-month market correction and FPI outflows, impacting brokers, depositories like CDSL, and exchange volumes.</li>
<li>The euphoria phase is cooling, but the long-term equity culture remains intact. Investors should expect near-term consolidation, with stronger players gaining share.</li>
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Retail investor activity and demat additions slowed sharply in early 2025, with new account openings falling to a multi-year low of 2.3Mn in February.
This signals a broader sentiment reset after a 5-month market correction and FPI outflows, impacting brokers, depositories like CDSL, and exchange volumes.
The euphoria phase is cooling, but the long-term equity culture remains intact. Investors should expect near-term consolidation, with stronger players gaining share.


India’s Capital Markets in Early 2025: Retail Activity Cools Amid Shifting Currents

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Sudarshan Bhandari

India Equity Analyst - Fundamental & Thematic

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<li>Overall, the introduction of the price-linked tick size mechanism by the NSE is a positive development as it leads to improving market efficiency and enhancing price discovery. </li>
<li>This move is likely to benefit investors by reducing slippage costs and improving liquidity, especially for small-cap and mid-cap stocks. </li>
<li>The move is also evidence of intense competition between NSE and BSE. BSE earlier was the only exchange to offer reduced tick size.</li>
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Overall, the introduction of the price-linked tick size mechanism by the NSE is a positive development as it leads to improving market efficiency and enhancing price discovery. 
This move is likely to benefit investors by reducing slippage costs and improving liquidity, especially for small-cap and mid-cap stocks. 
The move is also evidence of intense competition between NSE and BSE. BSE earlier was the only exchange to offer reduced tick size.


India's Largest Exchange Took Major Move To Improve Price Efficiency

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<li>Indian household savings seeing a significant transition from traditional assets to financial assets</li>
<li>More than transition, there is a transformative trend ahead for financialization of savings paving way for Indian Households a decadal opportunity of wealth creation</li>
<li>What happened in US could happen in India over the next few decades - Significant wealth creation opportunity</li>
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Indian household savings seeing a significant transition from traditional assets to financial assets
More than transition, there is a transformative trend ahead for financialization of savings paving way for Indian Households a decadal opportunity of wealth creation
What happened in US could happen in India over the next few decades - Significant wealth creation opportunity


From Savings to Wealth Creation: The Financialization of Indian Households

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Sumeet Singh

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<li>Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.</li>
<li>On the IPO front, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/hd-hyundai-marine-solution-co" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:41002:1" rel="noopener">HD Hyundai Marine Solution (443060 KS)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bharti-hexacom" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:40858:1" rel="noopener">Bharti Hexacom</a> were in the market trying to raise over US$500m each.</li>
<li>Placements flow continued unabated this week as well, India, Taiwan and South Korea seeing large blocks.</li>
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Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.
On the IPO front, HD Hyundai Marine Solution (443060 KS) and Bharti Hexacom were in the market trying to raise over US$500m each.
Placements flow continued unabated this week as well, India, Taiwan and South Korea seeing large blocks.


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India

Central Depository Services (India) Limited (CDSL) offers financial services. The Company provides transmission of securities, dematerialisation, processing delivery, account opening, receipt instructions, holding, pledging, educational initiatives, settlements, and depository services to investors. CDSL serves customers in India.

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NSDL IPO: The Bull Case

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Arun George

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Retail investor activity in early 2025 slows sharply, with new demat account openings hitting a multi-year low of 2.3Mn in Feb, signaling a...

Nimish Maheshwari

India's Largest Exchange Took Major Move To Improve Price Efficiency

The NSE's introduction of reduced tick size mechanism improves market efficiency, benefits investors by reducing slippage costs, and shows...

Sudarshan Bhandari

From Savings to Wealth Creation: The Financialization of Indian Households

Equities as % household assets have rose from 2% to 5% as of 2023 and is expected to gone to 10% by 2030 paving a significant opportunity for...

Sudarshan Bhandari

ECM Weekly (1st Apr 2024) - Shinhan, GlobalWafers, Mankind, Hyundai Marine, Bharti Hexacom, ChaPanda

Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.

Sumeet Singh

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NSDL IPO: The Bull Case

NSDL, India's largest depository, will shortly launch its IPO to raise US$400 million. In this note, I discuss the bull case.

Arun George

India’s Capital Markets in Early 2025: Retail Activity Cools Amid Shifting Currents

​Retail investor activity in early 2025 slows sharply, with new demat account openings hitting a multi-year low of 2.3Mn in Feb, signaling a...

Nimish Maheshwari

India's Largest Exchange Took Major Move To Improve Price Efficiency

​The NSE's introduction of reduced tick size mechanism improves market efficiency, benefits investors by reducing slippage costs, and shows...

Sudarshan Bhandari

From Savings to Wealth Creation: The Financialization of Indian Households

Equities as % household assets have rose from 2% to 5% as of 2023 and is expected to gone to 10% by 2030 paving a significant opportunity for...

Sudarshan Bhandari

ECM Weekly (1st Apr 2024) - Shinhan, GlobalWafers, Mankind, Hyundai Marine, Bharti Hexacom, ChaPanda

Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.

Sumeet Singh

Retail investor activity in early 2025 slows sharply, with new demat account openings hitting a multi-year low of 2.3Mn in Feb, signaling a...

The NSE's introduction of reduced tick size mechanism improves market efficiency, benefits investors by reducing slippage costs, and shows...