ICICI Securities Ltd is an integrated securities firm offering a wide range of services including investment banking, institutional broking, retail broking, private wealth management, and financial product distribution. ICICI Securities sees its role as 'Creating Informed Access to the Wealth of the Nation' for its diversified set of client that include corporates, financial institutions, high net-worth individuals and retail investors

Headquartered in Mumbai, ICICI Securities operates out of 66 cities and towns in India and global offices in Singapore and New York.

International Data Group India's CIO magazine has recognized ICICI Securities as a recipient of CIO 100 award in 2009, 2010 and 2011 for its CRM solutions which automated all sales processes across multiple customer segments and disparate sale s teams. (Basically an award for IT excellence).

For the year ended 31st Mar 2010, ICICI sec has handled 16 securities & raised INR 230 billion converting 23% of total domestic fund raising activity in FY10.

NEWS : 18.11.2011

The Seminar was organized by Department of Disinvestment, Ministry of Finance, Government of India in association with ICICI Securities Ltd., here today. The focus of the Seminar was PSU Disinvestment through Listing.

Union Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has said that listing provides an opportunity to the people of India to become shareholders in Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs); while Government retains management control and at least 51% shareholding in the Government companies.

PRODUCTS AND SERVICES :

1. Equity Products : ICICI sec offers you various options while trading in shares.

Features :

Cash Trading : This is a delivery based trading system, which is generally done with the intention of taking delivery of shares or monies. 

Margin Trading : You can also do an intra-settlement trading upto 3 to 4 times your available funds, wherein you take long buy/ short sell positions in stocks with the intention of squaring off the position within the same day settlement cycle. 

MarginPLUS Trading : Through MarginPLUS you can do an intra-settlement trading upto 25 times your available funds, wherein you take long buy/ short sell positions in stocks with the intention of squaring off the position within the same day settlement cycle. MarginPLUS will give a much higher leverage in your account against your limits. 

CallNTrade® : CallNTrade® allows you to call on a local number in your city & trade on the telephone through our Customer Service Executives. This facility is currently available in over 11 major states across India. 

Trading on NSE/BSE : Through ICICIdirect.com, you can trade on NSE as well as BSE. 

Market Order : You could trade by placing market orders during market hours that allows you to trade at the best obtainable price in the market at the time of execution of the order. 

Limit Order : Allows you to place a buy/sell order at a price defined by you. The execution can happen at a price more favorable than the price, which is defined by you, limit orders can be placed by you during holidays & non market hours too.

2. Corporate Fixed Deposits:-

We offer a range of Corporate Fixed Deposits varying in tenures, interest rates & institutions to suit your investment needs. The deposit schemes have been specially chosen from high-safety options to ensure that you enjoy the twin benefits of returns and protection. Why opt for Corporate Fixed Deposits?

If your risk appetite is low, fixed deposits are perfect for you. Since most of the instruments are rated, corporate fixed deposits have a very high safety level.

Attractive returns at interest rates higher than banks's Fixed Deposits. Higher Interest rates for senior citizens. High liquidity; most of these issuers offer 75% of the investment amount as loan @ 2% over the interest rate on the deposit, as well as a

pre-mature withdrawal Option. Potential to earn compounding interest on your money by reinvesting the principal amount along with the interest earned. Flexible tenure - there are various tenures ranging from 1 to 7 years. You can choose interest frequency; most issuers offer monthly, quarterly, bi annual and annual cumulative deposits. You get direct ECS credit facility for interest payments or advance interest warrants for the year issued by most issuers.

3.Bonds:-

Bond refers to a security issued by a company, financial institution or government which offers regular or fixed payment of interest in return on the amount borrowed money for a certain period of time.

Thus by purchasing a bond, an investor loans money for a fixed period of time at a predetermined interest rate. While the interest is paid to the bond holder at regular intervals, the principal amount is repaid at a later date, known as the maturity date. While both bonds and stocks are securities, the principle difference between the two is that bond holders are lenders, while stockholders are the owners of the organization. Another difference is that bonds usually have a defined term, or maturity, after which the bond is redeemed, whereas stocks may be outstanding indefinitely.

Customer also has the option of recurring interest along with Principal i.e Cumulative Interest. Thus a bond is like a loan: the issuer is the borrower (debtor), the holder is the lender (creditor), and the coupon is the interest. Bonds provide the borrower with external funds to finance long-term investments, or, in the case of government bonds, to finance current expenditure. Bonds must be repaid at fixed intervals over a period of time.

4.Mutual FundsICICI Direct offers you a simple and convenient way to invest and manage your personal finance with over 2000 funds approximately.

By offering you the choice of the various funds we partner with, we offer you the opportunity to diversify your portfolio

ICICI Direct offers an efficient way to investingThe benefits of choosing ICICI Direct for your financial planning are:

Convenience - Provides a well diversified set of investment products under a single sign-on and completely paper-less investing experienceExpertise - You can access some of the researched funds selected based on rigorous criterionFlexibility - You may select the fund that best suits your need.