NSE has played a catalytic role in reforming the Indian securities market in terms of microstructure, market practices and trading volumes. The market today uses state-of-art information technology to provide an efficient and transparent trading, clearing and settlement mechanism, and has witnessed several innovations in products & services viz. demutualisation of stock exchange governance, screen based trading, compression of settlement cycles, dematerialisation and electronic transfer of securities, securities lending and borrowing, professionalisation of trading members, fine-tuned risk management systems, emergence of clearing corporations to assume counterparty risks, market of debt and derivative instruments and intensive use of information technology.
An important aspect of financial reforms is the development of a pool of human resources having right skills and expertise to help enhance quality intermediation in the financial markets. NSE aims at cultivating a culture of knowledge to help investors take informed decisions relating to the securities market and has initiated a number of educational initiatives such as certification programs, training, financial literacy at school level, short term courses at college level etc.