1. SEBI was officially established by The Government of India in the year 1988 and given statutory powers in 1992 with SEBI Act, 1992 being passed by the Indian Parliament.
2. SEBI has it’s Headquarter at the business district of Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai, and has Northem, Eastern, Southern and Western Regional Offices in New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Ahmedabad respectively.
3. Initially, SEBI was a non-statutory body without any statutory power. However, in the year of 1995, SEBI was given additional statutory powers by the Government of India through an amendment to the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992. In April, 1998 the SEBI was constituted as the regulator of capital markets in India under a resolutionof the Government of India. SEBI’s Establishment: SEBI was established as a supervising and regulatory body to curb certain malpractices and to promote the Securities Markets in India.