The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) announced in April that it would allow DMA to be made available to foreign and domestic institutional investors. Here are two articles discussing the opportunities and challanges DMA will bring. If successful India will have gained an edge over China, which currently does not allow DMA to foreign institutions.
DMA hits India, by Waters Online 01.08.2008
Motilal Oswal, like many Indian firms, is in the process of getting the required approvals to offer full DMA services to the two main exchanges of India-the traditional Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the newer National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India. “Once we have the last certificate, we will need to do the legal documentation with the clients and then we can go ahead,” says Rajesh Dharamshi, director of institutional trading at Motilal Oswal.
Around 10 brokers in the South Asian country are in the process of getting themselves connected and making this facility available to their global clients, according to Athul Kudva, director at Omnesys technologies, an Indian trading technology vendor. For full article click here.
Impact of Direct Market Access in India, Bobsguide 30.07.2008
The introduction of DMA trading for institutional investors in India reflects the nation’s move towards a technologically advanced and efficient electronic trading infrastructure. Celent anticipates high adoption of DMA channels among industry participants and high growth of DMA flows over the next few years.
In a new report, Impact of Direct Market Access in India, Celent examines the reasons behind the introduction of DMA in India, including growth drivers and demand for its adoption, changing trends in the market structure among participants, and the implications of these trends on the overall potential growth of DMA flow volumes.
DMA has become popular in the advanced markets of the US and Europe. This channel has provided the buy side with greater control over trades, faster and better quality of execution, facilitation of complex trading strategies, market and liquidity aggregation, increased compliance with regulations, and lowered brokerage fees. It is not surprising, then, that DMA flows in these markets have quickly risen to 15–18% and 8% of the total respective flows. DMA’s success begs the question: will it find similar acceptance in India? The answer is a resounding yes.
“Conditions in the market, especially some key market inefficiencies at the brokers’ end, are ripe for the adoption and usage of DMA channels. Major brokerage houses are in a race with each other to enhance their trading systems and be among the first to offer these services,” says Sandeep Hebbar, senior analyst with Celent’s Banking group and author of the report.
A significant proportion of the major brokerage houses that cater to the institutional segment and the active set of buy side institutions are getting ready to provide DMA channels, and mass trading will commence by the end of 2008. Celent estimates that DMA trades will amount to 11% of the total flow of trades by 2010. Currently, local technology vendors dominate the local DMA solutions market. For full article click here.
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