All registered stock brokers can offer access to the optional T+0 settlement cycle to their investors. Stock brokers are free to charge differential brokerage for the same. 
An optional Block Deal window mechanism will be introduced under the T+0 settlement cycle as an 8.45 am to 9.00 am session, alongside the existing block windows under the T+1 settlement cycle. 
It reiterated that the optional T+0 settlement in the equity cash market will continue to coexist with the extant T+1 settlement cycle.
Regulatory framework for Investment Advisers (IAs) and Research Analysts (RAs): The board said that the minimum qualification requirement is to be reduced to a graduate degree in specified fields. There shall be no requirement of experience for registration as IAs and RAs. 
Further, it added that IAs/RAs shall be required to have base certifications (NISM Series XA and XB for IAs, and NISM Series XV for RAs) only initially at the time of registration. There shall be no requirement to obtain base certifications afresh subsequently. However, a certification based on incremental changes/developments would be required.
Faster Rights Issue: The board approved that the rights issue will be completed in 23 working days from the date of the issuer’s board meeting approving the rights issue, as against present average timelines of 317 days.
This mechanism would be even faster than the preferential allotment route that takes 40 working days. In addition, it would give existing shareholders of the company an opportunity to participate even more, in the future potential growth of the company. 
Amendments to (LODR) Regulations 2015 and SEBI (ICDR) Regulations, 2018: The board approved the introduction of a single filing system for listed entities to file relevant reports, documents, etc. on one exchange, which will be automatically disseminated at the other exchange(s).
It also approved the integration of periodic filings into two broad categories, viz., Integrated Filing (Governance) and Integrated Filing (Financial), to minimise the number of filings done on a periodic basis.
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Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs): With an objective to clarify the regulatory intent of Alternative Investment Funds (‘AIFs’) being pooled investment vehicles and to ensure fair and equal treatment of investors of an AIF, the SEBI's board approved proposals to specify in the AIF Regulations that, the rights of the investors in investments of and distributions of the returns from a scheme of an AIF shall be pro-rata to their commitment in the scheme and that in all other respects (subject to specified exemptions), the rights of the investors of a scheme of an AIF shall be pari passu. (Pari passu is a Latin term meaning 'equal footing'.)
Investor-friendly norms for nomination in securities market: The markets regulator has decided to introduce a uniform, investor-friendly norms for nomination in the Indian securities market, expanded the scope of the framework to promote corporate fundraising through sustainable finance and replaced the requirement of document attestation by a notary or Gazetted officer with self-attestation.
With inputs from PTI