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BSE is Asia’s oldest stock exchange, begun in 1875 as the Native Share and Stock Brokers’ Association under a banyan tree near Horniman Circle, and housed since 1980 in the 29-storey Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers on Dalal St

NSE was set up in 1992 at the Government’s instance to bring screen-based trading to India and began operations in 1994 from Exchange Plaza in Bandra Kurla Complex.

MCX, set up in 2003 and run from Exchange Square in Andheri East, is India’s largest commodity derivatives exchange, trading gold, silver, crude oil, natural gas, copper and other metals.

SEBI is the regulator of the securities market, set up in 1988 and given statutory powers in 1992; its head office is SEBI Bhavan in Bandra Kurla Complex.

NSDL, set up in 1996 as the first depository in India, holds the larger share of securities by value and is run from Trade World in Kamala Mills, Lower Parel; it listed on the exchanges in 2025.

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Paytm, run by One97 Communications from Noida, is the Indian payments and financial-services app that listed on the Mumbai exchanges in 2021 in the largest IPO of its time; it has a large Mumbai office.