Depositary provides the following benefits :

1. Immediate transfer of securities;
2. No stamp duty on transfer of securities;
3. Elimination of risks associated with physical certificates such as bad delivery , fake securities , etc.;
4. Reduction in paperwork involved in transfer of securities;
5. Reduction in transaction cost;
6. Nomination facility;
7. Change in address recorded with DP gets registered electronically with all companies in which investor holds securities eliminating the need to correspond with each of them separately;
8. Transmission of securities is done by DP eliminating correspondence with companies;
9. Convenient method of consolidation of folios/accounts ;
10. Holding investments in equity, debt instruments and Government securities in a single account;
11. Automatic credit into demat account, of shares, arising out of split/consolidation/merger etc.