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Warsaw Stock Exchange is the largest national stock exchange in the CEE and one of the fastest-growing exchanges in Europe. WSE Group offers a wide range of products and services within its trading markets of equity, derivative, fixed income and structured products; it also distributes market data. WSE is one of the most recognizable Polish financial institutions worldwide.

The WSE’s governing bodies are:
- the General Meeting,
- the Supervisory Board, referred to as the Exchange's Supervisory Board,
- the Management Board, referred to as the Exchange's Management Board.

The parent entity and the subsidiaries of the Group have two main business lines:

  • Financial market, which includes trading in equities, derivatives, fixed-income and other instruments, listing, and information services;
  • Commodity market, which includes trading in electricity and property rights in certificates of origin, operation of a register of certificates of origin, clearing, trade and technical trade operator services.

In its business in all these three segments, the Group organises and operates trading on the following markets:

  • Main Market (trade in equities, equity-related and other cash instruments, derivatives),
  • NewConnect (trade in equities and equity-related instruments of small and medium-sized enterprises),
  • Catalyst (trade in corporate, municipal, co-operative, Treasury and mortgage bonds operated by the WSE and BondSpot),
  • Treasury BondSpot Poland (wholesale trade in Treasury bonds operated by BondSpot),
  • poee WSE Energy Market (Daily-Hourly Electricity Market, Electricity Futures Market).

As of Q1 2012, the Group additionally organises and operates trade on the markets operated by the company Polish Power Exchange (PolPX):

  • Energy Markets (Intra-Day Market, Day-Ahead Market, Commodity Derivatives Market, Electricity Auctions),
  • Property Rights Market,
  • Emission Allowances Market.

In addition, as of Q1 2012, the Group operates the Clearing House and the Settlement Institution via the company Warsaw Commodity Clearing House (WCCH) and a Register of Certificates of Origin via the company PolPX.

 

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The Warsaw Stock Exchange (Giełda Papierów Wartościowych w Warszawie S.A.)
registered office:
4 Ksiazeca Street, Warsaw 00-498, Poland,
entered in the Company Register by the Warsaw District Court, 12th Commercial Division of the National Court Register, KRS Register no. 82312,
VAT no. 526-025-09-72,
share and paid–in capital: PLN 41,972,000.

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