The story began with the BSE board selling 5 per cent of its equity each to Frankfurt-based Deutsche Boerse AG (the world's biggest stock exchange in terms of market capitalisation) and the Singapore Exchange at Rs 5,200 per share.
An interview with Jaykrishna D Pathak, president of the Bombay Yarn Merchants Association & Exchange.
The National Securities and Depository is looking at increasing the number of demat accounts by restructuring its IT infrastructure.
The Indian stock markets started falling from mid-February after reaching an all time high of 14,700-plus.
Indian companies have now started looking at the Singapore Stock Exchange for fund raising and listing. The SGX became a shareholder in the Bombay Stock Exchange last week.
Exchange valued at $600-800 mn.
The Bombay Stock Exchange governing board is meeting over the next couple of days to select a strategic partner.
Nothwithstanding the controversy last year over private procurement of wheat, domestic and multinational companies are getting set for another round of large-scale purchases this rabi season.
Intercontinental Exchange, which trades in energy derivatives, is in talks to buy ICICI Bank's holding in the National Commodities and Derivative Exchange.
Meanwhile, the stamp duty burden on purchase of residential and commercial property throughout Mumbai is all set to increase by 5 to 25 per cent.
The year 2007 will bring in seven developments that can change the domestic capital market. The capital market is all set to look very different from what it is today.
The Securities & Exchange Board of India is considering introducing plea bargain in about a month to trim the large backlog of cases in which it is involved.
Rajnikan Patel, CEO and managing director of the exchange, tells Business Standard in an interview that BSE remains in talks with global exchanges to offload equity.
You may have to pay for using the Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark Sensex or other indices for launching any product or scheme based on it, as Asia's oldest stock exchange is increasingly becoming protective about its brands.
Open interest, the carry-forward position of stock market participants, increased by Rs 18,000 crore (Rs 180 billion) -- nearly 50 per cent -- in the first six days of the December contract, whose trading began on the first day of this month.