Abstract
Securities controllers had implemented uncountable actions to sustain the capital market. Bangladesh Securities Exchange Commission (BSEC) applied series of actions like central depository, online trading, circuit breaker, the Demutualization Act, the Banking Control Act (BCA), Independent Financial Reporting Council and modifying rules for Mutual Fund Services side by side Bangladesh Bank directed the banks to recomputed bank’s investment in the capital market to attract and build the confidence of the investors. Securities Settlement Policy of the Bangladesh Capital Market especially of the Dhaka Stock Exchange needs to be analyzed with chronological evaluation. This examination would involve rigorous scrutiny of significant steps of the regulatory authority of the Capital Market for boosting up the confidence of the investors. The research objectives of this study are to recognize the securities settlement policy of capital market in Bangladesh, to examine the performance of the Dhaka Stock Exchange by analyzing the indexes and the turnovers of the market over the years and to determine the confidence of the investor in the capital market of Bangladesh. More specifically, the study was descriptive and analytical type. Data were collected from the respondents of Dhaka district from January 2020 to June 2020 on a random basis. Secondary sources of data were used from various journal articles, reports, relevant publications, dissertations, books and websites etc. This investigation involved both methods as a mutual research approach which also called combined approach. Information and Data were composed from both primary and secondary sources in two stages. English version questionnaire was organized. Face-to-face interview were followed for Data collection from the respondents of this study. Ultimately, the approach was sharing in nature which confirms expressive involvement of a wide range of investors. In this research, for being field surveys there were 400 respondents. Mostly, the findings for a sustainable securities settlement policy of the Capital Market of Bangladesh are good governance should be ensured, rules and regulations should be implemented strictly, investors should be educated by sufficient training, coordination should be ensured among the regulators, proper monitoring and supervision should be ensured by the concerned authorities, professional portfolio analysts should be increased, market manipulation should be stopped, steps should be taken so that quality share can get the opportunity to come in the IPO process, fund flow should be increased, institutional and foreign investors should be given facilities so that they can be encouraged to participate in the market, compliance should be ensured, faster settlement procedure should be ensured for the development of the capital market of Bangladesh. Therefore, it can be concluded that after taking above steps the securities settlement policy of the capital market would get fresh momentum and the enhancement of investor’s confidence for the development of a well-built capital market of the country.