Towards a vibrant bond market for retail investors

Registering online bond platforms as stockbrokers will ensure transparency and protect investors' rights. However, investors must ensure that they are dealing with market participants

A well-regulated and organised market helps in creating an ecosystem of trust, confidence, diversity and growth in terms of participants and business. It creates a win-win situation for all those who are associated with the sector. To realise such an ecosystem, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has come out with a series of circulars and consultation papers in order to create and develop a robust, vibrant bond market for retail investors.

This shows the capital market regulator’s confidence that a well-developed retail-bond market will democratise and deepen the investor base, and bring in a new set of participants