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Depository is a facility for holding securities electronically in which securities transactions are processed by book entry. In addition to the core services of electronic custody and trade settlement services, NSDL provides special services like pledge, hypothecation of securities, automatic delivery of securities to clearing corporations, distribution of cash and non-cash corporate benefits (Bonus, Rights, IPOs etc.), stock lending, demat of NSC / KVP, demat of warehouse receipts and Internet-based services such as SPEED-e and IDeAS.

NSDL has also set-up a facility that enables brokers to deliver contract notes to custodians and/or fund managers electronically. This facility called STEADY (Securities Trading - information Easy Access and DeliverY) was launched by NSDL on November 30, 2002. STEADY is a means of transmitting digitally signed trade information with encryption across market participants electronically, through Internet.