Indian central securities depository to back up its monitoring of bonds by bl...

Indian central securities depository to back up its monitoring of bonds by bl...

In the future, India’s NDSL and the Securities Board division will welcome other entities to join the decentralized network. The National Securities Depository (NSDL), India’s central securities depository based in Mumbai, launched blockchain-based security and covenant monitoring platform. NSDL officially launched the distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform on Saturday during its 25th-anniversary presentation, alongside the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). The platform is expected to strengthen the monitoring of security and governance in the corporate bonds market to....


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