Abstract:

Covid 19 has changed the investment and business perspective of people all over the world. Investors were not able to liquidate their financial and non-financial assets to meet their basic needs. Financial markets and financial institutions suffered financial losses, but Stock markets experienced unexpected support and resilience levels. Policy reforms and Technology enabled services like LAS (Loan Against Securities), OTP confirmation, e-DIS (electronic Delivery Instructions Slips), ETCD (Exchange Traded Currency Derivatives) etc., attracted new investors along with the existing investors to invest more in Indian Stock markets. Reforms in policies of SEBI, RBI, NSDL and CDSL and Technology enabled services promoted stock trading and made the stock market safer. This descriptive research paper provides an empirical analysis of the stock market with the help of selected Circulars of the Financial Regulators in Covid 19 period, i.e., 2019-2020 & 2020-2021

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