Zerodha to launch US stock investing, revamp trading and investing platforms
Beyond international equities, Zerodha’s leadership outlined major platform upgrades spanning technology, design, and infrastructure.
India’s largest stockbroker by revenue, Zerodha, is preparing a sweeping set of product upgrades, from US stock market access via GIFT City to a complete revamp of its trading and investment platforms, founders said during a company-wide “Ask Me Anything” session on YouTube.
Co-founder and CEO Nithin Kamath confirmed that the firm is working toward allowing Indian investors to trade US equities.
“A lot of people tagged me also on Twitter and asked about the US investing thing,” Kamath said. “That’s something that we are working on, and we should have something now maybe in the next quarter.”
Zerodha’s chief technology officer Kailash Nadh added that the product would launch through India’s International Financial Services Centre at GIFT City. “Yeah. Yeah... This has been a long-pending thing—investing in foreign stocks. We have the requisite regulatory clarity now via GIFT City,” Nadh said.
Zerodha is set to compete with rivals such as Angel One, INDmoney, Appreciate, and other brokerages that already offer US stock-broking services.
Beyond international equities, Zerodha’s leadership outlined major platform upgrades spanning technology, design, and infrastructure.
Nadh said a “big update to the desktop trading experience” is underway, describing it as a long-planned modernisation of the company’s core interface. The refresh will coincide with a “massive series of infrastructural upgrades” to improve scalability and system resilience.
“Radical tech changes [and] upgrades in the back end... will help us scale for the next decade,” Nadh said.
Zerodha also plans to expand its retail investment platform Coin, turning it into what Kamath called a “standalone slow personal finance and wealth management thing.” The aim, he said, is to make Coin a companion to active trading, focusing on long-term investing and financial planning.
Among the new features, Zerodha will soon let users place orders through WhatsApp in emergency situations when its main trading system, Kite, is unavailable.
“We have the ability to allow clients to place orders via WhatsApp... in case of a disaster when Kite goes down,” Nadh said, explaining that the system operates on “a different cloud provider, different data centre” as a fail-safe mechanism.
For power users, the company is building advanced order types, synthetic orders, and trailing stop-loss tools—features long requested by professional traders. Mutual fund investments, currently limited to Coin, will also be integrated into Kite to simplify the experience.
The upgrades come as Zerodha faces mounting competition from Groww amid a slowdown in wider participation in the stock markets.