Established in 1875, BSE (formerly known as Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd.), is Asia’s first stock exchange.
It claims to be the world’s fastest stock exchange, with a median trade speed of 6 microseconds.
The BSE is the world’s 11th largest stock exchange with an overall market capitalization of more than $ 2 Trillion as of July, 2017
Over the past 140 years, BSE has facilitated the growth of the Indian corporate sector by providing it an efficient capital-raising platform.
Popularly known as BSE, the bourse was established as “The Native Share & Stock Brokers’ Association” in 1875. BSE is a corporatized and demutualised entity, with a broad shareholder-base which includes two leading global exchanges, Deutsche Bourse and Singapore Exchange as strategic partners. BSE provides an efficient and transparent market for trading in equity, debt instruments, derivatives, mutual funds. It also has a platform for trading in equities of small-and-medium enterprises (SME).
Bombay Stock Exchange has now adopted only its initials as the new name (BSE), positioning itself better position as a national multi-asset financial infrastructure institution. BSE’s strategic shift in approach, attitude and business focus is reflected in its new tag line – Experience the New.
More than 5500 companies are listed on BSE making it world’s No. 1 exchange in terms of listed members. The companies listed on BSE command a total market capitalization of USD 1.68 Trillion as of March 2015. It is also one of the world’s leading exchanges (5th largest in March 2015) for Index options trading.