Mumbai, India
Abbreviation
BSE
Location
Mumbai, India
Region
Asia
Product Types
Equity, Debt, Currency, Commodity Derivatives
The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), founded in 1875 as the Native Share & Stock Brokers Association, is Asia's oldest stock exchange and one of the world's largest by number of listed companies. While primarily an equity and debt exchange, BSE offers commodity derivatives including base metals, agricultural products, energy, and precious metals via BSE's commodity segment. BSE is headquartered in Mumbai's financial district and is regulated by SEBI. It lists over 5,500 companies and provides critical infrastructure for India's capital markets.
Indian Commodity Exchange Limited (ICEX), established around 2009 and headquartered in Mumbai, was India's first exchange to offer diamond futures contracts, a pioneering product in the global commodity derivatives space. ICEX also listed precious metals, agricultural, and base metals futures. The exchange operated under SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) regulation. Following challenges with trading volumes and market development, SEBI cancelled ICEX's recognition as a national commodity exchange, and it subsequently ceased operations.
The Cambodian Mercantile Exchange (CMEX) is a commodity derivatives exchange based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, offering trading in energy products, industrial metals, rubber, precious metals (gold, silver), and agricultural commodities. CMEX is part of Cambodia's nascent financial market development push, providing derivatives and commodity trading infrastructure for Southeast Asian-region participants. Cambodia's economy is primarily agricultural, with key commodities including rice, rubber, and cassava.
The Pakistan Mercantile Exchange (PMEX) is Pakistan's first and only multi-commodity futures exchange, established in 2007 in Karachi and regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP). PMEX offers futures contracts across precious metals (gold, silver), energy (crude oil, natural gas), agricultural commodities, equity index futures, and currency derivatives including gold in Pakistani rupees. The exchange is owned by the National Bank of Pakistan, Karachi Stock Exchange, Islamabad Stock Exchange, and Lahore Stock Exchange.
The Chittagong Tea Auction is one of the major tea auction centres in South Asia, located in Chittagong (Chattogram), Bangladesh. Operated by the Bangladesh Tea Board, the auction facilitates the weekly sale of CTC and orthodox teas grown in the Sylhet and Chittagong Hill Tracts tea gardens. Bangladesh is a significant tea producer, and the Chittagong auction provides benchmark pricing for Bangladeshi teas sold to domestic packers and export buyers, competing with the Kolkata and Colombo tea auction systems.