BSE

Bombay Stock Exchange

Type	Stock Exchange
Location	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Founded	1875
Owner	BSE Limited
Currency	Indian rupee
Indexes	BSE SENSEX BSE Small Cap BSE Mid-Cap BSE 500
Website	www.bseindia.com

Established in 1875, BSE Ltd. (Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd. And established as "The Native Share and Stock Brokers' Association") is one of Asia’s fastest stock exchanges, with a speed of 200 microseconds and one of India’s leading exchange groups. BSE is a corporatized and demutualised entity, with a broad shareholder-base that 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, and mutual funds. It also has a platform for trading in equities of small-and-medium enterprises (SME). Over the past 139 years, BSE has facilitated the growth of the Indian corporate sector by providing an efficient capital-raising platform. More than 5000 companies are listed on BSE, making it the world's top exchange in terms of listed members.

It is also one of the world’s leading exchanges (3^rd largest in March 2014) for Index options trading (Source: World Federation of Exchanges). BSE also provides a host of other services to capital market participants, including risk management, clearing, settlement, market data services, and education. It has a global reach with customers around the world and a nation-wide presence.

BSE systems and processes are designed to safeguard market integrity, drive the growth of the Indian capital market, and stimulate innovation and competition across all market segments.

BSE is the first exchange in India and the second in the world to obtain an ISO 9001:2000 certification and the Information Security Management System Standard BS 7799-2-2002 certification for its On- Line trading System (BOLT). It operates one of the most respected capital market educational institutes in the country (the BSE Institute Ltd.). BSE also provides depository services through its Central Depository Services Ltd. (CDSL) arm.

BSE’s popular equity index - the S&P BSE SENSEX (Formerly SENSEX) - is India's most widely tracked stock market benchmark index. It is traded internationally on the EUREX as well as leading exchanges of the BRCS nations (Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa). On Tuesday, 19 February 2013 BSE has entered into Strategic Partnership with S&P DOW JONES INDICES and the SENSEX has been renamed as "S&P BSE SENSEX".

Hours of operation:

Session	Timing
Pre-open Trading Session	09:00 - 09:15
Trading Session	09:15 - 15:30
Position Transfer Session	17:05 - 17:15
Closing Session	17:05 - 17:15
Option Exercise Session	17:07

*The hours of operation for the BSE quoted above are stated in terms of the local time (GMT + 5:30). BSE's normal trading sessions are on all days of the week except Saturday, Sundays and holidays declared by the Exchange in advance.