Who is a market participant?
Anyone who transacts in the stock market is called a market participant
Categories of market participants
- Domestic Retail Participants
- People like you and me transacting in markets
- NRI’s and OCI
- People of Indian origin based outside India
- Domestic Institutions
- Corporate entities in India
- Domestic Asset Management Companies
- Mutual fund companies
- Examples - SBI Mutual Fund, HDFC AMC, Edelweiss, ICICI Pru, etc.
- Foreign Institutional Investors
- Non-Indian corporate entities
- Stock market regulator
- In India, it is the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
- Credit Rating Agencies
- Debenture Trustees
- Merchant Bankers
- Asset Management Companies
- Portfolio Management System
- Stock brokers
- Depository
- Depository Participant (DP)
- Clearing Corporation - Stock Trading