SEBI is the regulator of stock exchanges in India, established in 1992 to replace the Controller of Capital Issues. It has various roles including licensing brokers and dealers, preventing fraud, regulating mergers and acquisitions, making new rules, educating investors, and auditing stock market performance. A Demat account allows investors to hold securities electronically through a Depository Participant instead of physical certificates and offers benefits like lower brokerage costs and increased liquidity.

1. Equity Market is a public entity (a loose network of
economic transactions, not a physical facility or discrete
entity) for the trading of company stock (shares) and
derivatives at an agreed price; these are securities listed
on a stock exchange.
Equity Market
Primary Market Secondary
(Issuing of Market (Trading
Securities) of Securities)

2. There are many roles of SEBI and it’s the regulator
of Stock Exchanges in India, Establishment in 1992 in
replacement of Controller of Capital Issues ( CCI ).
• Power to make rules for controlling stock exchange.
• To provide license to dealers and brokers.
• To Stop fraud in Capital Market.
• To Control the Merge, Acquisition
and takeover the companies.

3. • To make new rules on carry - forward transactions.
• To create relationship with ICAI.
• Introduction of derivative contracts on Volatility
Index
• To Require report of Portfolio Management
Activities.
• To educate the investors.
• To audit the performance of stock
market.

4. Stock
Investors BROKER Exchange
• To ensure market liquidity and respond rapidly to
its clients' needs.
• To respect the confidential nature of its clients'
transactions.
• Perfect knowledge of financial markets.
• Providing superior quality, high value added
service.

8. • Dematerialized account for individual Indian citizens to
trade in listed stocks or debentures, required for investors
by The Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
• A Demat account reduces brokerage charges, enables
quick ownership of securities on settlement resulting in
increased liquidity, avoids confusion in the ownership
title of securities, and provides easy receipts for public
issue allotments or IPOs.
• A single Demat account can hold investments in both
equity and debt instruments

10. Physical Electronic Demat
Form Form Account
To dematerialize any physical security:
a) open a demat account with a DP.
b) fill in a DRF (Demat Request Form) and submit the same with
the physical certificate/s to the DP for dematerialization.
c) DP defaces and sends the certificates to the Issuer/Registrar
who credits an equivalent number of securities in the demat
account, maintained by CDSL.

11. • Re-Materialization is the process by which a client
can get his electronic holdings converted into
physical certificates.
• A client can rematerialize his dematerialized holdings
at any point of time.
• If one wishes to get back his securities in the physical
form, one has to fill in the RRF (Remat Request
Form) and request his DP for Re-Materialization of
the balances in his securities account.