How To Transfer Shares From One Demat Account To Another Online?
Primary objective of demat account is to keep financial instruments i.e. shares, ETF or Mutual funds in safe custody in electronic form. It is also very much possible people have multiple demat accounts, as in earlier days, only full-service brewers were active but now discount brokers are dominating in the stock broking industry providing better trading platforms . Hence, many investors don’t bother to close or use their existing demat account, instead, they open another one with a new broker. Such investors have the holdings of shares in older demat accounts and now bought the securities in the new demat account with two brokers. And now looking to merge or transfer the shares from one demat account to another one. There are only 2 major depositories in India- one is CDSL ( Central Depository Services Ltd) and other one is NSDL ( National Securities Depositaries Ltd). Only these two entities have the authority to open Demat account in India. Your depository participa...