| Date |
BSE Milestones |
| 1875 To 1995 |
| 9th Jul 1875 |
The Native Share & Stock Broker's Association formed |
| 2nd Feb 1921 |
Clearing House started by Bank of India |
| 31st Aug 1957 |
BSE granted permenant recognition under Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act (SCRA) |
| 2nd Jan 1986 |
SENSEX, country's first equity index launched (Base Year:1978-79 =100) |
| 10th Jul 1987 |
Investor's Protection Fund (IPF) introduced |
| 3rd Jan 1989 |
BSE Training Institute (BTI) inaugurated |
| 25th Jul 1990 |
SENSEX closes above 1000 |
| 15th Jan 1992 |
SENSEX closes above 2000 |
| 30th Mar 1992 |
SENSEX closes above 4000 |
| 1st May 1992 |
SEBI Act established
( An Act to protect, develop and regulate the securities market) |
| 29th May 1992 |
Capital Issues (Control) Act repealed |
| 1992 |
Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) established |
| 14th Mar 1995 |
BSE On-Line Trading (BOLT) system introduced |
| TOP |
| 1996 To 2000 |
| Date |
BSE Milestones |
| 19th Aug 1996 |
First major SENSEX revamp |
| 12th May 1997 |
Trade Guarantee Fund (TGF) introduced |
| 21st Jul 1997 |
Brokers Contingency Fund (BCF) introduced |
| 1997 |
BSE On-Line Trading (BOLT) system expanded nation-wide |
| 1st Jun 1999 |
Interest Rate Swaps (IRS) / Forward Rate Agreements (FRA) allowed |
| 22nd Mar 1999 |
Central Depository Services Ltd.(CDSL) set up with other financial institutions |
| 15th Jul 1999 |
CDSL commences work |
| 11th Oct 1999 |
SENSEX closed above 5000 |
| 11th Feb 2000 |
SENSEX crosses 6000 intra-day |
| 9th Jun 2000 |
Equity Derivatives introduced |
| TOP |
| 2001 To 2005 |
| Date |
BSE Milestones |
| 1st Mar 2001 |
Corporatisation of Exchanges proposed by the Union Govt. |
| 1st Feb 2001 |
BSE Webx Launched |
| 4th Jun 2001 |
BSE PSU index introduced |
| 15th Jun 2001 |
WDM operations at commenced |
| 1st Jun 2001 |
Index Options launched |
| 2nd Jul 2001 |
VaR model introduced for margin requirement calculation |
| 9th Jul 2001 |
Stock options launched |
| 11th Jul 2001 |
BSE Teck launched, India 's First free float index |
| 25th Jul 2001 |
Dollex 30 launched |
| 1st Nov 2001 |
Stock futures launched |
| 29th Nov 2001 |
100% book building allowed |
| 31st Dec 2001 |
All securities turn to T+5 |
| 1st Apr 2002 |
T+3 settlement Introduced |
| 15th Feb 2002 |
Negotiated Dealing System (NDS) established |
| 1st Feb 2002 |
Two way fungibility for ADR/GDR |
| 1st Sep 2003 |
SENSEX shifted to free-float methodology |
| 1st Jan 2003 |
India 's first ETF on SENSEX - ‘SPICE' introduced |
| 16th Jan 2003 |
Retail trading in G Sec |
| 1st Apr 2003 |
T+2 settlement Introduced |
| 1st June 2003 |
Bankex launched |
| 1st Dec 2003 |
T group launched |
| 17th May 2004 |
Second biggest fall of all time, Circuit filters used twice in a day
(564.71 points, 11.14%) |
| 2nd Jun 2004 |
SENSEX closes over 6000 for the first time |
| 20th May 2005 |
The BSE (Corporatisation and Demutualisation) Scheme, 2005
(the Scheme) announced by SEBI |
| 8th Aug 2005 |
Incorporation of Bombay Stock Exchange Limited |
| 12th Aug 2005 |
Certificate of Commencement of Business |
| 19th Aug 2005 |
BSE becomes a Corporate Entity |
| TOP |
| 2006 To 2010 |
| Date |
BSE Milestones |
| 7th Feb 2006 |
SENSEX closed above 10000 |
| 7th Jul 2006 |
BSE Gujarati website launched |
| 21 st Oct 2006 |
BSE Hindi website launched |
| 2nd Nov 2006 |
iShares BSE SENSEX India Tracker listed at Hong Kong Stock Exchange |
| 2nd Jan 2007 |
Launch of Unified Corporate Bond Reporting platform : Indian Corporate Debt Market (ICDM) |
| 7th Mar 2007 |
Singapore Exchange Limited entered into an agreement to invest in
a 5% stake in BSE |
| 16th May 2007 |
Appointed Date” under the Scheme i.e. Date on which
Corporatisaton and Demutualisation was achieved.Notified by SEBI
in the Official Gazette on 29.06.2007 |
| 10th Jan 2008 |
SENSEX All-time high 21206.77 |
| 1st Oct 2008 |
Currency Derivatives Introduced |
| 18th May 2009 |
The SENSEX raised 2110.70 points (17.34%) and Index-wide
upper circuit breaker applied |
| 7th Aug 2009 |
BSE - USE Form Alliance to Develop Currency & Interest Rate
Derivatives Markets |
| 24th Aug 2009 |
BSE IPO Index launched |
| 1st Oct 2009 |
Bombay Stock Exchange introduces trade details facility for the Investors |
| 5th Oct 2009 |
BSE Introduces New Transaction Fee Structure for Cash Equity Segment |
| 25th Nov 2009 |
BSE launches FASTRADE™ - a new market access platform |
| 4th Dec 2009 |
BSE Launches BSE StAR MF – Mutual Fund trading platform |
| 7th Dec 2009 |
Launch of clearing and settlement of Corporate Bonds through Indian Clearing Corporation Ltd. |
| 14th Dec 2009 |
Marathi website launched |
| 18th Dec 2009 |
BSE's new derivatives rates to lower transaction costs for all |
| 4th Jan 2010 |
Market time changed to 9.0 a.m. - 3.30 p.m. |
| 20 th Jan 2010 |
BSE PSU website launched |
| 22nd Apr 2010 |
New DBM framework @ Rs.10 lakhs - 90% reduction in Membership Deposit |
| 12th May 2010 |
Dissemination of Corporate Action information via SWIFT platform |
| 23rd July 2010 |
Options on BOLT |
| 11th Oct 2010 |
Launch of Fastrade on Web (FoW) - Exchange hosted platform |
| 21st Sep 2010 |
First to introduce Mobile-based Trading |
| 29th Sep 2010 |
Introduction of Smart Order Routing (SOR) |
| 4th Oct 2010 |
EUREX - SENSEX Futures launch |
| 22nd Nov 2010 |
Launch of SLB |
| 12th Nov 2010 |
Commencement of Volatility Index |
| 10th Dec 2010 |
Launch of SIP |
| 27th Dec 2010 |
Commencement of Shariah Index |
| TOP |
| 2011 |
| Date |
BSE Milestones |
| 15th Jan 2011 |
Co-location facility at BSE - tie up with Netmagic |
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