No self-trading in bourse shares: SEBI
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is not considering any proposal to allow self-trading in the bourses’ shares at present, Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey said on Wednesday.
“There is no such thing going on. It will be, if it happens or when it happens, you will come to know. So, there is no such thing at the moment,” Pandey said on the sidelines of the Association of Portfolio Managers in India’s annual conference 2026. The SEBI chairman was replying to a specific question on the subject, following reports of the market regulator mulling setting up a panel to examine whether exchanges like the BSE and NSE could eventually be allowed to trade in their own shares.
On bond indices and derivatives, Pandey said Sebi and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are pursuing the finalisation of draft guidelines.
“Yes, I believe they have prepared some draft guidelines and asked for comments, and I think we are pursuing with RBI to finalise,” he said. Pandey, however, said he could not give any timeline for finalisation of the guidelines, saying it needed to be checked with RBI.
