Under this original charter it was constituted as the Securities Exchange of Barbados (SEB), and remained known as such until August 2, 2001, when Parliament repealed and replaced the prior act with an updated charter under The Securities Act 2001–3 Since July 4, 2001 the BSE has operated under a fully electronic trading utilizing the Order routing method.

Although it was given effect by Parliament, the BSE functions as a not-for-profit organisation which is privately owned (by its Members).

[8] As of 2010, BSE was one of twenty-seven correspondent members of the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE).

in Kenya and BSE signed a joint Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) to help promote links between Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean regions.

[10] On March 23, 2014, BSE became the 112th announced member of the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges initiative.