Established in 1875, BSE Ltd is the oldest stock exchange in Asia and operates the BSE exchange platform (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange). People often refer BSE as a duopoly with NSE being the other player however its a lopsided duopoly with NSE bossing the equity segment. Below is a snapshot of NSE dominance

Source – NSE Presentation

Not only NSE is dominant it is gaining market share due to its network effect.

How did an exchange so prevalent lost its Mojo?

CEO Ashish Chauhan has put it very aptly in his interview with Forbes

The BSE was late to the derivatives game. Typically, one is likely to trade equities at the same exchange where one trades derivatives. So a gap was created. The BSE had basically zero market share in derivatives, currencies, commodities… pretty much everything except a little bit of equities and some initial public offerings (IPOs). The technology wasn’t considered very good. People had pretty much written the BSE off. Why did the NSE become so big? Not on the back of the past but on the back of the new [offerings]. Derivatives played a big role in it.

So there were mainly five issues which the BSE … Read the rest