NEPSE What ?

What is Nepse

Published by Octron on August 24, 2008

Nepal Stock Exchange, in short NEPSE, is a non-profit organization, operating under Securities Exchange Act, 1983.

The basic objective of NEPSE is to impart free marketability and liquidity to the government and corporate securities by facilitating transactions in its trading floor through member, market intermediaries, such as broker, market makers etc. NEPSE opened its trading floor on 13th January 1994. Members of NEPSE are permitted to act as intermediaries in buying and selling of government bonds and listed corporate securities. At present, there are 23 member brokers and 2 market makers, who operate on the trading floor as per the Securities Exchange Act, 1983, rules and bye-laws.

Besides this, NEPSE has also granted membership to issue and sales manager securities trader (Dealer). Issue and sales manager works as manager to the issue and underwriter for public issue of securities whereas securities trader (Dealer) works as individual portfolio manager.

At present there are 11 sales and issue manager and 2 dealers (Secondary market).

The tenure of the membership is one year. The license should be renewed within 3 months after the closure of the fiscal year. If not, it can be done within another three months by paying 25% penalty.

NEPSE the only Stock Exchange in Nepal introduced fully automated screen based trading since 24th August, 2007. The NEPSE trading system is called ‘NEPSE Automated Trading System ‘(NATS) is a fully automated screen based trading system, which adopts the principle of an order driven market.

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