Budapest Stock Exchange

BSE's mission is to create a Hungarian economy based on stable and independent funding and to continuously develop the financial culture of the Hungarian population and corporate sector. As the successor to the first Hungarian stock exchange, founded more than 150 years ago in 1864, the Budapest Stock Exchange plays a pivotal role both in Hungary's and the Central Eastern European region's capital markets. As a result of the dynamic growth it achieved after its re-establishment in 1990, BSE now provides the highest level of service, in compliance with the standards of developed markets, to security issuers, traders and investors from around the world. In the last two and a half decades, Budapest Stock Exchange evolved into the most innovative market in the region: it was the first to introduce, among other activities, options and futures trading. The exchange pioneered the listing of exchange-traded funds in the region and was among the first to use central counterparty services, an essential component of the safety of settlements, in collaboration with KELER. Today, BSE offers investors the broadest range of products in the region. Alongside equities and debt securities, which are the traditi