Prague Stock Exchange
Prague Stock Exchange (PSE) is the largest and oldest organizer of the securities market in the Czech Republic. Last year, the exchange celebrated 150 years since its founding. PSE is a member of the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE), and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (US SEC) included PSE on its list of exchanges safe for investors by granting it the status of “Designated Offshore Securities Market”.
The stock exchange’s activities and capital market operation are supervised by the Czech National Bank. Trading on PSE is conducted via licensed securities traders who are also the Exchange Members. Trading is conducted through the international trading system Xetra ®.
Trading takes place on several markets - from the most prestigious Prime Market to the Start Market, where shares of smaller innovative companies are traded. The Prague Stock Exchange offers trading in shares, bonds, structured products and investment funds.
PSE is a joint stock company, its major shareholder is Wiener Börse AG, with a 99.543% interest. At the international level, this cooperation enables joint measures to increase the visibility of both markets and to acquire professional market participants such as data vendors and index licensees, institutional investors and trading participants for the member exchanges.
PSE and its subsidiaries form the PX Group. In addition to the Exchange, the most important member in the Group is Central Securities Depository Prague (CSD Prague) which has a dominant position in the area of settlement of securities trades on the Czech capital market. PX Group also co-operates with POWER EXCHANGE CENTRAL EUROPE (PXE) which offers power and gas trading.
