India transitioned to a market-wide Transaction+1 (T+1) settlement system for equities from the previous T+2 cycle.
The new system was first introduced by market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), in 2021
It has been implemented phase wise starting from smallest companies by market capitalisation to larger ones.
It has become the second largest market after China to have made the transition ahead of the U.S., Europe and Japan which adhere to the T+2 settlement cycle.
A trade involves three important functions, execution of trade, clearing and settlement, carried out by separate entities.
It is represented using ‘T’, that is, trade executed on a particular day.
Since clearing used to take place the next day followed by another day for settlement, the previous mechanism was defined as ‘T+2’.
From now onwards, the settlement will be done the next day itself, thus, T+1.