India: After 141 years, BSE still needs a niche for IPO success

India: After 141 years, BSE still needs a niche for IPO success

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If there was a prize for the world’s most prolific stock exchange, India’s BSE would win hands down. At the end of last year, Asia’s oldest equity bourse had 5,836 companies listed on it. That’s a fifth of all publicly traded firms in the Asia-Pacific region, and a tenth of the total worldwide.

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