Bombay Stock Exchange

BSE Limited, also known as the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), is an Indian stock exchange which is located on Dalal Street in Mumbai. Established in 1875 by cotton merchant Premchand Roychand, a kumauni businessman,^[6] it is the oldest stock exchange in Asia,^[7] and also the tenth oldest in the world.^[8] The BSE is one of the world's largest stock exchanges by market capitalization.^[4]

BSE Ltd.

Corporate headquarters on Dalal Street
Type	Stock exchange
Location	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Founded	9 July 1875; 147 years ago (9 July 1875)^[1]
Key people	SS Mundra (Chairman)^[2] Sundararaman Ramamurthy (MD & CEO)^[3]
Currency	Indian rupee (₹)
No. of listings	5,307^[4]
Market cap	₹280 trillion (US$3.5 trillion) (Feb 2023)^[5]
Indices	BSE SENSEX S&P BSE SmallCap S&P BSE MidCap S&P BSE LargeCap BSE 500
Website	bseindia.com
Company
Traded as	NSE: BSE
ISIN	INE118H01017
Headquarters	Mumbai
Website	www.bseindia.com

The Economic Times estimates that as of April 2018, 6 crore (60 million) retail investors had invested their savings in stocks in India, either through direct purchases of equities or through mutual funds.^[9] Earlier, the Bimal Jalan Committee report estimated that barely 3% of India's population invested in the stock market, as compared to 27% in the United States and 10% in China.^{[10][11][12][13]}

History

Bombay Stock Exchange was started by Premchand Roychand in 1875.^[14] While BSE Limited is now synonymous with Dalal Street, it was not always so. In the 1850s, five stock brokers gathered together under a Banyan tree in front of Mumbai Town Hall, where Horniman Circle is now situated.^[15] A decade later, the brokers moved their location to under the banyan trees at the junction of Meadows Street and what was then called Esplanade Road, now Mahatma Gandhi Road. With a rapid increase in the number of brokers, they had to shift places repeatedly. At last, in 1874, the brokers found a permanent location, the one that they could call their own. The brokers group became an official organization known as "The Native Share & Stock Brokers Association" in 1875.^[16]

On 12 March 1993, a car bomb exploded in the basement of the building during the 1993 Bombay bombings.^[17] The BSE is also a Partner Exchange of the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchange initiative, joining in September 2012.^[18] BSE established India INX on 30 December 2016. India INX is the first international exchange of India.^[19] BSE became the first stock exchange in the country to launch commodity derivatives contract in gold and silver in October 2018.^[20]

BSE was demutualized and corporatized on 19 May 2007, pursuant to the BSE (Corporatization and Demutualization) Scheme, 2005 notified by SEBI.^[21][22] It was listed on NSE on 3 February 2017.^[23][24][a]

 

Bombay Stock Exchange from 1999 to 2020 (Indices S&P BSE 500)

Criticism and controversies

See also: 1992 Indian stock market scam, Ketan Parekh, and NSE co-location scam

A number of corruption scandals, including the 1992 Indian stock market scam and others, have rocked the Indian stock exchanges.^{[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][excessive citations]} At various times, numerous Indian corporate groups have been charged with stock manipulation.^{[33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][excessive citations]}

See also

• Economy of India
• List of stock exchanges
• National Stock Exchange of India
• Stock market crashes in India
• List of stock market crashes and bear markets
• Trading day
• Muhurat trading
• Clause 49
• Securities and Exchange Board of India

References

Notes

1. SEBI Regulation 45(1) of Securities Contracts (Regulation) (Stock Exchanges and Clearing Corporations) Regulations, 2018 prohibits self-listing of a stock exchange in India.^[25]

Citations

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Coordinates: 18°55′47″N 72°50′00″E / 18.9298°N 72.8334°E / 18.9298; 72.8334 (Bombay Stock Exchange)