Around 1.65 lakh demat accounts opened in Oct

Around 1.65 lakh investor accounts were added during the month of October, taking the cumulative number of such accounts on the nation’s two depositories to 2.43 crore, shows latest data. 

The two depositories, CDSL and NSDL, witnessed an addition of about 1.8 lakh investor accounts during September. 

With 1.65 lakh more dematerialised (demat) accounts in October, overall 17.35 lakh new investor accounts have now been opened in the past 12 months (till October 31), according to latest data available with the depositories and market regulator Sebi.