Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai

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.

NCDEX, set up in 2003 with its office in Bandra Kurla Complex, is the exchange for agricultural commodities — guar, chana, jeera, castor seed, cotton and the like — and the price reference for India’s farm markets.

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.

IRDAI, set up in 1999 and headquartered in Hyderabad, regulates the insurance companies; its Mumbai office in Bandra Kurla Complex sits among the insurers it supervises, most of which are headquartered in the city.

PFRDA regulates the National Pension System and the pension fund managers; it is headquartered in Delhi, and the pension fund managers it licenses — SBI, LIC, UTI, HDFC, ICICI, Kotak and others — are Mumbai companies.

ICICI Prudential Life, the 2000 joint venture of ICICI Bank and Prudential plc, was the first private life insurer to list in India, in 2016; its registered office is ICICI PruLife Towers at Prabhadevi, with offices in B

SBI Life, set up in 2001 by State Bank of India and BNP Paribas Cardif, is the largest private life insurer by new business premium; its corporate office is Natraj at Western Express Highway, Andheri East, with earlier o

ICICI Lombard, set up in 2001, is the largest private general insurer in India, listed on the exchanges with its registered office at ICICI Lombard House, Prabhadevi.

SBI Mutual Fund, managed by SBI Funds Management, a joint venture of State Bank of India and Amundi of France, is the largest fund house in India by assets; its head office is at 9th floor, Crescenzo, Bandra Kurla Comple

ICICI Prudential AMC, the joint venture of ICICI Bank and Prudential plc, is the second-largest fund house in India, with its head office at One BKC in Bandra Kurla Complex.

Nippon India Mutual Fund, the former Reliance Mutual Fund bought by Nippon Life of Japan in 2019, is among the five largest fund houses in India and is listed on the exchanges; its head office is Nesco IT Park in Goregao

Kotak Mahindra AMC, the fund house of the Kotak group, is among the largest in India, run from 27BKC in Bandra Kurla Complex.

UTI AMC is the successor of the Unit Trust of India of 1964, the first mutual fund in the country, and is listed on the exchanges; its head office is UTI Tower, Gn Block, Bandra Kurla Complex.

DSP Mutual Fund is the fund house of the DSP group, the Kothari family’s broking house that goes back to the 1860s on Dalal Street; after its partnerships with Merrill Lynch and BlackRock ended it is wholly Indian-owned,

Mirae Asset, the Korean fund house, runs its Indian mutual fund from Unit 606, Windsor Building, Kalina, near Bandra Kurla Complex; its equity schemes made it one of the fastest-growing fund houses in India.

Edelweiss AMC, the fund house of the Edelweiss group, runs from Edelweiss House at Kalina and manages the Bharat Bond ETFs for the Government alongside its own schemes.

ICICI Securities, the broking and investment-banking arm of ICICI Bank, runs ICICIdirect, one of the largest retail broking platforms in India, from ICICI Venture House at Prabhadevi; it was delisted and folded into ICIC

Kotak Securities, the broking arm of the Kotak group, is one of the largest full-service brokers in India, run from 27BKC with research and institutional desks.

Zerodha, founded in Bengaluru in 2010 by Nithin and Nikhil Kamath, is the largest retail broker in India by active clients and changed the business with flat-fee trading; it is listed here because the Mumbai exchanges an

Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, runs its Indian private equity and real estate business from Express Towers at Nariman Point and offices in Bandra Kurla Complex; it is the largest foreign inves

KKR runs its Indian private equity, credit and infrastructure investing from Bandra Kurla Complex; its investments include Reliance Jio and Reliance Retail stakes, Avendus and several hospital and consumer companies.

Warburg Pincus was among the first global private equity firms in India, famous for its Bharti Airtel investment of 1999, and runs from Express Towers at Nariman Point and BKC.

Edelweiss, founded in 1995 by Rashesh Shah and Venkat Ramaswamy as an investment bank, is a listed diversified financial group run from Edelweiss House at Kalina: asset management, alternative funds, asset reconstruction

Reliance Industries, founded by Dhirubhai Ambani and led by Mukesh Ambani, is India’s largest company by revenue and market value; its registered office is Maker Chambers IV at Nariman Point and its corporate headquarter

Morningstar India, the Indian arm of the Chicago fund-research company, is headquartered in Navi Mumbai and rates and researches mutual funds and equities for Indian investors and advisers.

Kotak Institutional Equities, the institutional broking and research arm of Kotak Securities at 27BKC, is among the most followed equity research desks in India.