The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) issued revised ...

Stricter rules for real-time monitoring & capacity planning by Indian stock exchanges, clearing houses & depositories.

December 11, 2024

Circulars     SEBI

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) issued revised guidelines for capacity planning and real-time performance monitoring framework for Market Infrastructure Institutions (MIIs) like stock exchanges, clearing corporations, and depositories. Key requirements include proactive capacity planning methodology, maintaining installed capacity at least 1.5 times projected peak load based on sustained peak trend, comprehensive quarterly stress testing, horizontal and vertical scalability testing, automated performance monitoring with predefined thresholds and alert systems, maintaining asset registers, enhancing capacity if utilization exceeds 75%, assessing impact of changes, including requirements in vendor SLAs, and having a defined policy approved by Standing Committee on Technology and Board. MIIs must submit revised guidelines to SEBI within 3 months after board approval.

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