The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has extended the deadline for stock exchanges to meet new eligibility rules for trading derivatives on non-benchmark indices such as Nifty Bank, Bankex and FinNifty.

As per Sebi's May 29, 2025, circular, indices used for derivatives trading must follow certain norms: they must have at least 14 companies, no single company should have a weight of more than 20 per cent and the top three companies together should not exceed 45 per cent of the index. The index must also follow a clear descending order of weights. Advertisement

To meet these rules, the capital market regulator instructed stock exchanges to adjust the composition and weights of the companies in their existing indices instead of creating new ones.

For BSE's Bankex and NSE's Fi

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