Central Depository Services (India) Ltd
NSE: CDSL BSE: 538434
₹1188.50
-36.50 (2.98%)
Wed, 28 Oct 2026, 09:59 pm
Market Cap (in Cr)24839.65
PE Ratio54.46
Dividend1.07
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24.5KCentral Depository Services (India) Ltd Company History
1997
- The Company was incorporated at Mumbai as Central Depository Services (India) Limited.
- The Company obtained its certificate of commencement of business from the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
1998
- The Company was initially registered by way of a certificate of registration by SEBI under the Depositories Regulations.
1999
- The Union Finance Minister of India, Mr. Yashwant Sinha, flagged off the operations of the Company.
- The first settlement of trades in demat mode through BOI Shareholding Limited began.
- The Company obtained its certificate of commencement of business as a depository under Depositories Regulations.
2002
- The Company launched its internet facility easi.
- Online inter-depository transfer commenced.
2004
- The Company launched its internet facility easiest.
2005
- The number of active demat accounts with the Company crossed 1 million.
- The number of companies admitted with the Company for demat crossed 0.005 million.
2006
- The Company was awarded the BS7799 certification from Det Norske Veritas.
- CDSL Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, was incorporated.
- The Company was awarded the ISO 27001 from Det Norske Veritas.
- CDSL Ventures began customer profiling and record keeping of the KYC of investors for mutual funds.
2007
- The Company signed an MoU with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation of New York.
- The Company signed an MoU with the Korea Securities Depository.
- The Company launched its SMS Alert facility, called SMART.
2008
- The number of active demat accounts with the Company touched 4.5 million.
- The Company signed an MoU with Japan Securities Depository Center, Inc.
- The Company signed an MoU with National Depository Center to bolster economic relations between India and Russia.
- The Company signed an MoU with Taiwan Depository & Clearing Corporation.
- The Company signed an MoU with Euroclear SA/NV to promote cross-border investment.
2009
- The Hon'ble Minister for Corporate Affairs of India, Mr. Salman Khurshid, launched the Company's e-voting platform.
- The Company signed an MoU with Bursa Malaysia Depository Sdn. Bhd. to pursue a cooperative relationship.
2010
- The Company signed an agreement with Nepal Stock Exchange Limited to set up a depository and clearing and settlement system in Nepal.
- The Company introduced the National Academic Depository.
2012
- SEBI Chairman, Mr. U. K. Sinha, launched CDSL Ventures KRA, India's first and largest KYC Registration agency.
2013
- The Company launched Transaction Using SMS Texting, a mobile-based utility.
2014
- CDSL won the IDC Insights Award in the CIO category.
- CDSL won the EMC Transformers Award in the best use of IT to transform business category.
2015
- The number of active demat accounts opened with the Company crossed 10 million.
- CDSL won the IDC Insights Award in the CIO category.
- CDSL won the IDG's CIO100 Award for enterprise IT excellence.
- CDSL won the IDG's Security Supremo Special Award in the security, risk, governance, and compliance category.
- CDSL won the Innovative CIO Awards in the CIO category.
- CDSL won the Dataquest Business Technology Award in the data center/networking category.
- CDSL won the Dataquest Business Technology Award in the enterprise security category.
- CDSL won the Dataquest Business Technology Award in the enterprise application category.
- CDSL won the Dataquest Business Technology Award in the storage/BCP/DR category.
- CDSL won the EMC Transformers Award in the best use of IT to transform business category.
- CDSL won the Info Sec Maestros Award for information security.
- CDSL won the Net App Innovation Award for enterprise mobility.
2016
- CDSL won the BFSI Tech Maestros Awards for IT leadership.
- CDSL won the Dell EMC Transformers Awards for security transformation.
- CDSL won the Exito BFSI IT Leadership Award for IT leadership.
- CDSL won the IDG's Intelligent Enterprise Champions Award for infrastructure.
- CDSL won the Innovative CIO Awards in the CIO category.
- CDSL won the Express Security Strategist Award for information security.
2017
- CDSL Commodity Repository Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary, was incorporated.
- The Company signed an MoU with Central Depository Systems, Sri Lanka.
- CDSL won the FinTec India Award for IT security projects and IT projects.
- CDSL won the Info Sec Maestros Award in the Information Security category.
2019
- CDSL received SEBI approval to open an IFSC branch at GIFT City, Gujarat.
2020
- CDSL inaugurated India's first IFSC branch at GIFT City.
- CDSL crossed 2 crore demat accounts.
- CDSL received AUA/KUA approval from UIDAI.
- CDSL contributed to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund and Chief Minister's Relief Fund to fight against the novel coronavirus.
2021
- CDSL surpassed the milestone of 4 crore active demat accounts.
- CDSL became the first depository to open 5 crore active demat accounts.
2022
- CDSL acquired a 6.78% stake in Open Network for Digital Commerce.
- CDSL became the first depository to open 6 crore active demat accounts.
- CDSL conducted an investor awareness program for the Assam Rifles.
2023
- CDSL became the first depository to join the Account Aggregator framework as a Financial Information Provider.
- CDSL became the first depository to open 10-crore demat accounts.
2024
- The Company issued bonus shares in the ratio of 1:1.
