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NSE Listed Companies’ Market Capitalization Surpass USD 5 Trillion

May 27, 2024 by Sujata Muguda 0 Comments #Amrit Kaal, #Bharti Airtel Limited, #Capitalization Surpass USD 5 Trillion, #NSE, #NSE Listed Companies, #Reliance Industries Limited, #Shri Sriram Krishnan, #TATA Consultancy Services Limited

The market capitalization of Indian listed companies on NSE surpassed USD 5 Trillio on May 23, 2024. On the same day, the Nifty 50 Index touched an all-time high of 22,993.60 The Nifty 500 index also touched an all-time high of 21,505.25 today indicating that growth in equity market is not restricted to only the large, capitalized stocks.

The journey of market capitalization of Indian listed companies from to USD 2 trillion (July 2017) to USD 3 trillion (May 2021) took about 46 months, USD 3 trillion to USD 4 trillion (December 2023) took about 30 months and the latest USD 1 trillion addition took only about 6 months. The top 5 companies by market capitalization are Reliance Industries Limited, TATA Consultancy Services Limited, HDFC Bank Limited, ICICI Bank Limited and Bharti Airtel Limited.

In the last 10 years, Nifty 50 index has delivered 13.4% returns (Total price index CAGR). During the same period, domestic mutual fund assets under management (Equity and Debt) increased by 506% from Rs 9.45 trillion end of April 2014 to Rs 57.26 trillion end of April 2024. The Foreign Portfolio investors (FPIs) assets under management (Equity and Debt) increased by 345% from Rs 16.1 trillion end of April 2014 to Rs 71.6 trillion at the end of April 2024.

Growth in market capitalization is not restricted to the top companies but is observed across stocks. The constituents of Nifty 100 index now account for 61% of market capital as compared to 74.9 % of total market capital as of April 2014. The resource mobilization by corporates including the Small and Medium Enterprise in the primary market has been encouraging and has provided an effective alternative mechanism in addition to the traditional methods of fund raising.

Liquidity in secondary market has also improved significantly in Capital Market Segment. The equity segment’s daily average turnover has increased by over 4.5 times from Rs 17,818 crores in FY15 to Rs 81,721 crores in FY24.

The achievement of this milestone is a testament of the vision outlined for the Amrit Kaal which includes a technology-driven and knowledge-based economy with strong public finances, and a robust financial sector.

Exchange has recently launched derivatives on the Nifty Next 50 index. With this launch, Exchange has provided derivatives on 3 broad market indices namely the Nifty 50 Index, Nifty Next 50 Index and Nifty Midcap Select Index giving a fair representation of large and liquid mid-capitalization segment of the market.

Shri Sriram Krishnan, Chief Business Development Officer, NSE said, “I would like to thank the Government of India, Securities Exchange of Board of India, and Reserve Bank of India for supporting the capital market ecosystem with progressive regulatory frameworks. I congratulate listed companies, trading members, investors, and all other stakeholders on achievement of this important milestone.

Increase in the latest USD 1 trillion in market capitalization in very short time of around 6 months only reposes the faith of investors in the Indian economy in the years to come. NSE as a Market Infrastructure Institution will continue to thrive and provide the best-in-class market infrastructure and a robust platform for investors as well as for resource mobilization for issuers, thereby supporting the important aspect of capital formation in the country.”

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NSE,India’s Largest Stock Exchange LeveragesQlik

Jun 1, 2022 by Agency 0 Comments #LeveragesQlik, #NSE, #Stock Exchange

Qlik® announced that National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. (NSE), based in Mumbai, is utilizingQlik to support and augment its regulatory capabilities. Qlik supports multiple teams within NSE to drive efficiencies and provide insights for facilitating data-informed decisions.

NSE plays a critical role in the Indian financial market’s ecosystem. In addition to providing a trading platform with cutting edge technology, clearing and settlement services, indices, and a market data feed, it is a front-line regulator and has a pivotal role in compliance monitoringfor about 1,100 trading members and 2,000 listed companies.

Apart from running the vital capital market infrastructure of the country, NSE as an exchange has been entrusted with the key responsibility of regulating trading members and listed companies, for which NSE has put in place by-laws, rules and regulations relating to member registration, securities listing and compliance, market surveillance and investigation, inspectionand enforcement as well as investor services.

NSE uses Qlik’s analytics to integrate data inputs from numerous databases, including trading data, clearing and settlement data, reporting by members, risk management services and client data. The Qlik Associative Engine allows for associations to be made from multiple datasets, enabling NSE to generate insights from all their data collectively and run comprehensive reporting for regulatory purposes. These associative insights built into their dashboards help the team to quickly be alerted on risk areas so they can take informed decisions.

“Data utilization is very important for NSE. We wanted to be able to have a single view of our data and be able to analyze it very intuitively,” said DrDinesh Kumar Soni, Senior Vice President, Regulatory Group at NSE. “With Qlik, we have been able to integrate our data on a singleplatform, reduce the time taken for reporting and quickly identify risk areas. The technology supports our teams so that they can concentrate on the actions they need to take rather than spending time putting data together and generating reports.”

With Qlik, NSE has significantly reduced the time needed to integrate and load data. Manual tasks have been greatly reduced and tasks that used to take 3-6 hours can now be completed within 30 minutes. This has aided the regulatory teams of NSE in driving better efficiencies by facilitating data analysis and improved decision-making capabilities. Qlik has also empowered non-technical NSE team members to create and use their own reports with no-code solutions and natural language processing.

“Qlik enables the team to process large volume of data from multiple sources swiftly. The best part of implementing the Qlik platform is seeing how users can interact with data using dynamic visualizations. We can look at the data from a bird’s eye view or single data points with a few simple clicks. This empowers our teams to draw meaningful inferences and make smarter decisions,” addedDrSoni.

“We are delighted to help the National Stock Exchange of India implementQlik to manage regulatory compliance proficiently. Qlik is known for its ability to bring data together in large complex environments, and customers like NSE are testament to the strength of our platform in bringing data together and being able to utilize it for fine-tuning decisions and business processes,” said Varun Babbar, Managing Director, India, Qlik.

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NSE Academy partners with Association for Financial Professionals for Finance, Treasury Education in India

Aug 25, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Association for Financial Professionals (AFP), #Managing Director of APAC, #MD & CEO, #Mr. Vikram Limaye, #Ms. Himashi Soriano, #NSE

The NSE Academy Limited (NAL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Stock Exchange (NSE), and the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP), have announced a formal partnership to provide AFP education and resources on the NSE Knowledge Hub, a unique artificial intelligence (AI) powered-learning experience platform specially created for financial learning. This partnership will allow financial practitioners in India to have access to the most relevant corporate treasury, financial planning and analysis content.

By working together, AFP and the NSE Academy are helping treasury and finance professionals in India become a part of the growing learning community and gain specialized knowledge from global leaders in their field. The NSE Knowledge Hub uses the power of AI to ensure content is tailored to individual areas of interests and goals and builds future-ready skills that have a positive business impact and career outcomes.

Ms. Himashi Soriano, Managing Director of APAC, Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) said: “This collaboration with the NSE Academy will add to AFP’s strong presence by building next-generation talent for the financial industry in India. By providing curated, insightful content to the NSE Knowledge Hub, AFP will be an asset for finance practitioners throughout their professional career.”

Mr. Vikram Limaye, MD & CEO NSE said: “NSE has always been at the forefront of driving innovation in the Indian BFSI sector. NSE Academy plays an integral role in developing competitive skillsets for finance professionals, along with regular upskilling required for the talent pool to be future-ready. This partnership with AFP brings unique globally accredited learning resources, fueled by the power of AI, to benefit the FP&A and Treasury practitioners in India. This will enable the professionals to be further equipped to meet the ever- growing demands of the dynamic market.”

NSE is the world’s largest derivatives exchange for 2nd consecutive year
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NSE is the world’s largest derivatives exchange for 2nd consecutive year

Jan 23, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #MD & CEO, #Mr. Vikram Limaye, #NSE

Mumbai: National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. (NSE) has emerged as the world’s largest derivatives exchange in 2020 by number of contracts traded based on the statistics maintained by Futures Industry Association (FIA), a derivatives trade body. NSE is ranked 4th in the world in the cash equities by number of trades as per the statistics maintained by the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) for calendar year 2020.

NSE has been focused on building robust markets for all asset classes. The exchange has launched a host of new products and services in 2020. In the capital market segment, NSE has listed T-bills (Treasury Bills) and SDLs (State Development Loans) facilitating investors to transact in these securities, in addition to the existing dated Government Securities (G-sec) available for trading. In the debt segment, the Exchange launched the Request for Quote Platform for execution and settlement of trades in debt securities.

On the derivatives side, the exchange launched weekly futures and options contracts on the EURINR, GBPINR and JPYINR pair. In the commodity derivatives segment, the exchange launched its first commodity options contract on Gold, followed by Silver. The exchange also made its foray in agricultural commodities with a futures contract on Crude Degummed Soybean Oil (CDSO).

Commenting on the occasion, Mr. Vikram Limaye, MD & CEO, NSE said: “The Coronavirus (COVID 19) pandemic is an unprecedented global situation that all countries are dealing with in terms of its human and economic consequences. The Government of India, various agencies and the frontline workforce have put in commendable efforts to combat the spread of the virus. It is indeed a matter of great pride for us and for our country that NSE has emerged as a global leader and achieved the distinction of being the largest derivatives exchange in the world for the 2nd consecutive year and the 4th largest exchange in cash equities by number of trades.”

“We are truly grateful to the Government of India, Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Reserve Bank of India (RBI), trading members, market participants and all our stakeholders for the support extended to us over the years. Our achievements would not have been possible without their support,” he further added.

The number of new investor registrations witnessed substantial growth in CY 2020, with 70 lakh new investor registrations, the highest in a calendar year and 2.3 times the number of registrations in CY 2019. In January 2020, NSE saw its unique registered investor base crossing 3 crores and closed the year at 3.7 crore investors.

NSE’s capital market segment average daily turnover witnessed growth of 57% in CY  2020, maintaining a healthy positive trend for the 7th consecutive year. The volumes transacted through mobile and internet-based platforms have surged, accounting for 35% of cash market turnover.

The year also witnessed the highest inflow in a calendar year from Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) in equities of Rs. 1,70,262 crores up by 68.4% when compared to CY 2019 which saw inflows of Rs. 1,01,122 crores.  Despite operational challenges as a result of Covid, high volatility and volumes, NSE has provided stable, robust and resilient market infrastructure from a trading, risk management, regulatory and technology standpoint.

NSE is focused and committed to further strengthening investor protection through a variety of measures including focused investor education, enhanced broker supervision and market surveillance. Further, it has always been the endeavour of the exchange to provide a wide range of new products and services catering to the diverse risk appetites of the investors as well as providing new business opportunities to its vast network of intermediaries.

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NSE successfully completes World Investor Week 2020

Dec 8, 2020 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Chairman, #MD & CEO, #National Stock Exchange of India Ltd, #NSE, #SEBI, #Shri Ajay Tyagi, #Vikram Limaye, #World Investor Week 2020

Mumbai: National Stock Exchange of India Ltd (NSE) successfully led the World Investor Week 2020 with an objective to raise awareness about the importance of investor education & protection. Under the aegis of IOSCO and SEBI as the national co-ordinator, 600 investor awareness virtual webinars were conducted by NSE across India with 80% in Tier-II & Tier-III cities.

As a part of this initiative, NSE rang the closing bell on November 23, 2020 to mark the occasion of the World Investor Week 2020 in the presence of Shri G P Garg, Executive Director, SEBI. A new unique initiative for this year was “Be Your Own Laxmi”, which focused on young women earners and women entrepreneurs where more than 5200 women participated in various programs during the week. A National level investor knowledge quest was also organised jointly with NSDL wherein approximately 50,000 registrations were received. The investor awareness campaigns were also amplified on NSE’s social media platforms which witnessed a reach of more than 10 lacs participants. Further, the number of registrations on the digital platform for Investor Education in association with IIM Bangalore reached near one lacs participants by the end of WIW 2020.

In his message to all market participants, Shri Ajay Tyagi, Chairman, SEBI said, “One of the main objectives of SEBI is to protect the interest of investors in securities. There is a need for new investors to make informed investment decisions. Thus, investor awareness and education play an important role in educating investors.”

Vikram Limaye, MD & CEO, NSE said on the inaugural ceremony of WIW 2020 conducted by ANMI: “SEBI always believes that an educated investor is a protected investor and we at NSE have always been encouraging investor education through our campaign “Soch kar, Samajh Kar, Invest Kar”. NSE has consistently focused on what is in the best interest of the Indian economy, markets and investors and in improving the financial well being of people.”

Ravi Varanasi, Chief Business Development Officer, NSE said: “Investor education program is an initiative by NSE to strengthen its engagement with communities across the country. The objective is to equip existing and potential investors with the knowledge and understanding of the financial markets and guide them in effective financial planning.”

NSE has been participating and celebrating World Investor Week (WIW) under aegis of IOSCO and SEBI since its inception in 2017. In this financial year, NSE has conducted more than 3000 investor awareness programs covering more than 98% districts of India.

Mr. Ravi Varanasi, Chief Business Development Officer, NSE and Shri. GP Garg, Executive Director, SEBI at NSE's Ring the Bell ceremony for World Investor Week 2020 starting today
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NSE organises Ring the Bell ceremony to mark the celebration of World Investor Week 2020

Nov 25, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Mr. Ravi Varanasi, #National Stock Exchange of India Ltd, #NSE, #Ring the Bell for Financial Literacy’, #SEBI, #Shri G P Garg

National Stock Exchange of India Ltd (NSE) took part in ‘Ring the Bell for Financial Literacy’ with an objective to raise awareness about the importance of investor education & protection and highlight the various initiatives of securities regulators in these two critical areas.

As part of this initiative, NSE rang the closing bell today to mark the beginning of the World Investor Week 2020 in the presence of Shri G P Garg, Executive Director, SEBI. NSE is celebrating WIW 2020 with SEBI as the National Coordinator under the aegis of IOSCO. During this week, more than 500 Investor Awareness virtual webinars would be conducted by NSE across India. One unique new initiative for this year is “Be Your Own Laxmi”, it is focused on young women earners and women entrepreneurs where more than 2500 women would be participating this week. A National level Investor knowledge Quest is also being organised jointly with NSDL. The Investor Awareness Campaigns will also be amplified on NSE’s digital Platform for Investor Education.

Mr. Ravi Varanasi, Chief Business Development Officer, NSE said, “The ringing of the closing bell today marks the celebration of World Investor Week 2020. The investor education program is an initiative by NSE to strengthen engagement with communities across the country. The objective is to equip existing and potential investors with the knowledge and understanding of the financial markets and guide them in effective financial planning. NSE has always focused on what is in the best interests of the Indian economy, markets and investors and in improving the financial wellbeing of people.”

On this occasion, Shri G P Garg, ED, SEBI said, “Investor should take well-informed decisions pertaining to investments. Every investor should understand the risk associated with investments.”

NSE has been participating and celebrating World Investor Week (WIW) since its inception in 2017. Last year NSE conducted more than 3700 Investor Awareness Programs covering 98% districts Pan India.