Mumbai, Oct. 31 -- The much-anticipated initial public offering (IPO) of National Stock Exchange of India Ltd (NSE) will "see the light of day", reiterated Tuhin Kanta Pandey, chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), on Friday, providing the clearest signal yet on the public issue.

"Unless you want my tenure to be too short, it will see the light of the day," Pandey quipped when asked if the NSE IPO would happen during his tenure at the Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit 2025 in Mumbai.

First proposed in 2016 to sell a 22% stake and raise Rs.10,000 crore, the IPO is yet to materialize due to the lack of a mandatory no-objection certificate (NOC) from Sebi. This certificate is crucial for the exchange to forma...