Budapest Stock Exchange
The Budapest Stock Exchange ( Magyar : Budapesti Értéktőzsde ) is a regional stock exchange in Budapest , Hungary .
The stock exchange was founded in Pest in 1864 by the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I. By the turn of the century, the Budapest Stock Exchange had developed into a flourishing securities trading center . During the Great Depression , the stock exchange was closed on July 14, 1931 (see also Deutsche Bankenkrise # Bank Holidays ) and gradually reopened in 1932.
With the beginning of communist rule after the Second World War, the majority of Hungarian companies were nationalized, all stock exchange trading was therefore stopped by the government and the assets of the stock exchange became state property. On June 21, 1990, the institution was reopened in the course of the political changes in the Eastern Bloc with the participation of the Vienna Stock Exchange .
In February 2003, agreed the Budapest Stock Exchange, a collaboration with the German Stock Exchange AG , which Hungarian equities - brokers within the entire infrastructure of the Xetra system can operate commercially.
In 2008 the Vienna Stock Exchange or CEE Stock Exchange Group held approx. 50.5% of the shares in the Budapest Stock Exchange.
In January 2010, BSE became a member of the CEE stock exchange group. Electronic trading has been running via the Xetra trading system since December 6, 2013.
On November 20, 2015, the Hungarian National Bank ( Magyar Nemzeti Bank - MNB) signed a purchase agreement with the Austrian CEESEG AG and the Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG , which previously held a 68.8 percent stake in the Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE). With this transaction, MNB received a majority of shares of 75.8 percent.
Web links
- Budapest Stock Exchange (English and Hungarian only)
Individual evidence
- ↑ bse.hu: 1914-1948: From one world war to another
- ↑ Budapest Stock Exchange: History ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed on June 20, 2010
- ↑ Deutsche Börse press release from December 5, 2013
- ↑ Budapest Stock Exchange is once again in Hungarian hands (press release)
