What are the benefits of participating in a depository?

What are the benefits of participating in a depository?

The benefits of participating in a depository are: -

• Immediate transfer of securities.

• No stamp duty on transfer of securities.

• Elimination of risks associated with physical certificates such as bad delivery, fake securities.

• Reduction in paperwork involved in transfer of securities.

• Reduction in transaction cost.

• Nomination facility.

• Change in address recorded with DP gets registered electronically with all companies in which the investor holds securities eliminating the need to correspond with each of them separately.

• Transmission of securities is done by DP eliminating correspondence with companies.

• Convenient method of consolidation of folios/accounts.

• Investments in equity, debt instruments and Government securities held in a single account.

• Automatic credit of shares, arising out of split / consolidation / merger etc., into demat account.

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