The process through which physical securities like share certificates and related documents are converted into electronic form is known as dematerialisation.(Photo by Romain Dancre on Unsplash ) The ...

Why is there so much excitement among insurance companies these days? Well, it is because the insurance regulator IRDAI is now giving a big push to “dematerialisation” of policies. As part of this ...

An update from Divi’s Laboratories Limited ( (IN:DIVISLAB)) is now available. Divi’s Laboratories Limited has submitted to the National Stock Exchange of India and BSE Limited the quarterly compliance ...

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 ...

THE Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC has stated that it will stop recognising share certificates in the Nigerian capital market in the first half of 2017, what is your view? Yes, I am in ...

Reading on Finextra last week about dematerialisation in the Netherlands reminded me about the issues that you face when you want to move from paper documents to electronic documents – particularly ...

Converting physical shares into demat form: In the past, trading in the Indian share market relied on the open outcry system, requiring investors to be physically present at stock exchanges to buy and ...

The Centre has given private companies —other than Producer companies—more time to comply with an earlier diktat to dematerialise their shares. As against the earlier specified deadline of September ...

An update from HFCL Limited ( (IN:HFCL)) is now available. HFCL Limited has submitted a compliance certificate to Indian stock exchanges and depositories confirming adherence to Regulation 74(5) of ...

There was a time when the Indian stock market followed the open outcry system, and the default trading method was through physical certificates. Conventionally, this resulted in a large amount of ...