Bombay Stock Exchange

Bombay Exchange
BSE
The BSE logo
Type Stock exchange
Location Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Founded 9 July 1875
Key people Mr. Premchand Roychand
(Founder)
Shri S Ravi (Chairman)[1]
Mr. Ashishkumar Chauhan (MD & CEO)
Currency Indian rupee (₹)
No. of listings 5,439[2]
Market cap ₹150,184.87 billion (US$2.1 trillion) (April 2018)[3]
Indices BSE SENSEX
S&P BSE SmallCap
S&P BSE MidCap
S&P BSE LargeCap
BSE 500
Website www.bseindia.com

The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) is an Indian stock exchange located at Dalal Street, Mumbai (formerly Bombay).

Established in 1875, the BSE (formerly known as Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd.)[4] is Asia’s first stock exchange.[4] It claims to be the world's fastest stock exchange, with a median trade speed of 6 microseconds.[5] The BSE is the world's 10th largest stock exchange with an overall market capitalization of more than $2.3 trillion on as of April 2018.[2]

History

Bombay Exchange was founded by Premchand Roychand. He was one of the most influential businessmen in 19th-century Bombay. A man who made a fortune in the stockbroking business and came to be known as the Cotton King, the Bullion King or just the Big Bull. He was also the founder of the Native Share and Stock Brokers Association, an institution that is now known as the BSE.[6]

While BSE Ltd is now synonymous with Dalal Street, it was not always so. The first venue of the earliest stock broker meetings in the 1850s was in rather natural environs - under banyan trees - in front of the Town Hall, where Horniman Circle is now situated. A decade later, the brokers moved their venue to another set of foliage, this time under banyan trees at the junction of Meadows Street and what is now called Mahatma Gandhi Road. As the number of brokers increased, they had to shift from place to place, but they always overflowed to the streets. At last, in 1874, the brokers found a permanent place, and one that they could, quite literally, call their own. The new place was, aptly, called Dalal Street (Brokers' Street).

The Bombay Stock Exchange is the oldest stock exchange in Asia.[7] Its history dates back to 1855, when 22 stockbrokers[8] would gather under banyan trees in front of Mumbai's Town Hall. The location of these meetings changed many times to accommodate an increasing number of brokers. The group eventually moved to Dalal Street in 1874 and became an official organization known as "The Native Share & Stock Brokers Association" in 1875.

On August 31, 1957, the BSE became the first stock exchange to be recognized by the Indian Government under the Securities Contracts Regulation Act. In 1980, the exchange moved to the Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers at Dalal Street, Fort area. In 1986, it developed the S&P BSE SENSEX index, giving the BSE a means to measure the overall performance of the exchange. In 2000, the BSE used this index to open its derivatives market, trading S&P BSE SENSEX futures contracts. The development of S&P BSE SENSEX options along with equity derivatives followed in 2001 and 2002, expanding the BSE's trading platform.

Historically an open outcry floor trading exchange, the Bombay Stock Exchange switched to an electronic trading system developed by CMC Ltd. in 1995. It took the exchange only 50 days to make this transition. This automated, screen-based trading platform called BSE On-Line Trading (BOLT) had a capacity of 8 million orders per day. The BSE has also introduced a centralized exchange-based internet trading system, BSEWEBx.co.in to enable investors anywhere in the world to trade on the BSE platform. Now BSE has raised capital by issuing shares and as on 3rd May 2017 the BSE share which is traded in NSE only closed with Rs.999 .[9]

The BSE is also a Partner Exchange of the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchange initiative, joining in September 2012.[10]

BSE established India INX on 30 December 2016. India INX is the first international exchange of India.[11].

See also

References

  1. ↑ "BSE appoints S Ravi as its new chairman | Business Standard News". Business-standard.com. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  2. 1 2 "Monthly Reports - World Federation of Exchanges". WFE.
  3. ↑ "BSE - Equity Market Capitalisation". Bombay Stock Exchange. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  4. 1 2 "BSE-Introduction". www.bseindia.com.
  5. ↑ "BSE becomes world's fastest stock exchange: Ashishkumar Chauhan - The Economic Times". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
  6. ↑ Mishra, Ashish K. (23 May 2015). "Premchand Roychand: Mumbai's original share king".
  7. ↑ "BSE-Introduction". www.bseindia.com.
  8. ↑ Mishra, Ashish K. (2015-05-23). "Livemint: Business news, financial news, current affairs and analysis of stock markets and Indian economy". livemint.com/. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
  9. ↑ "BSEIndia". BSEIndia. Archived from the original on 22 January 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
  10. ↑ "Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) commits to promoting sustainability". UNCTAD. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
  11. ↑ "India INX". www.indiainx.com.

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