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Borsa Italiana

Borsa italiana
Palazzo mezzanotte2.jpg
Type
Location Milan, Italy
Founded 1808; 209 years ago (1808)
Owner
Key people Andrea Sironi (Chairman)
Raffaele Jerusalmi (CEO)
Currency EUR
No. of listings 353
Market cap US$645 billion
Volume US$738 billion
Indices FTSE MIB
FTSE Italia All-Share
FTSE Italia Mid Cap
FTSE Italia Small Cap
FTSE AIM Italia
Website www.borsaitaliana.it

Borsa Italiana S.p.A., based in Milan, is Italy's . It manages and organises domestic market, regulating procedures for admission and listing of companies and intermediaries and supervising disclosures for listed companies.

Following exchange privatisation in 1997, the Company was established and became effective since January 2, 1998. It is now a subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group plc since June 23, 2007.

In 2015, overall capitalisation for listed company on Borsa Italiana was worth €465Bln, representing % of Italian GDP.

Borsa Italiana is also informally known as Piazza Affari ("Business Square"), after the city square of Milan where its headquarters (the Palazzo Mezzanotte building) is located.

Borsa Italiana is chaired by Andrea Sironi while Raffaele Jerusalmi serves as CEO. The two, moreover, are also both members of the Board of Directors of London Stock Exchange Group.

The Borsa di commercio di Milano (Milan Stock Exchange) was established by Eugène de Beauharnais, viceroy of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, through decrees dated 16 January and 6 February 1808.

It operated under public ownership until 1998, when it was privatized

On 1 October 2007, Borsa Italiana was merged with the in an all-share takeover, thus becoming part of the .

In March 2016, the announced it had agree to merge in an all-stock deal with Deutsche Borse.

Borsa Italiana acts as a market management firm operating with autonomy and flexibility. It organises and manages the domestic stock market along with Italian and international brokers through fully electronic trading system. Among its leading tasks, Borsa Italiana supervises listed companies, defining rules for admission and listings and supervising transaction activities.

The exchange has pre-market sessions from 08:00am to 09:00am, normal trading sessions from 09:00am to 05:30pm and post-market sessions from 06:00pm to 08:30pm on all days of the week except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays declared by the Exchange in advance.

Major trading markets for Borsa Italiana are:

Borsa Italiana also include markets for derivatives (IDEM), ETF (ETFPlus) and bonds (MOT).

Borsa Italiana's main indices are:

for a full list see Category:Companies listed on the Borsa Italiana:


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