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Location
Johannesburg (Head Office) & Cape Town, South Africa
Web site
Founded
• 1887 Cash Equities
• 1989 Derivatives
• 1996 Debt Market
AFM Member since
1998
Management
• Ms. Nonkululeko Nyembezi-Heita, Chairman
• Ms. Nicky Newton-King, CEO
AFM Contact Person
Chris Sturgess
Type of Institution
The JSE is one of the top 20 exchanges in the world in terms of market capitalization as well as its
ranking amongst global derivatives markets.
Trading or service
offering
JSE offers a full trading and clearing exchange service across the product range of cash equities,
derivatives (equities, commodities, currencies, interest rates) as well as a Debt Market. We also have a
well-established data information service and offer access to a co-location site for latency sensitive clients.
JSE Clear, a separate legal entity owned by the JSE, provides clearing services for most of our products.
Main products
• A number of actively traded and liquid companies listed on the main board of the cash equities
market
• ALSI – an actively traded equity index
• USD vs Rand currency contract
• White Maize and Yellow Maize contracts,
• A number of government bonds and derivatives on these
Market capitalisation (USD)
Cash Equity Market is around USD 1 trillion. Derivatives market has around a USD 1.5 billion daily value traded
Exchange partnerships
• CME Group
• Euronext
• MSCI
• Eris Exchange
• FTSE, owned by LSE Group
• Namibian Stock Exchange
• Zambia Agricultural Commodity Exchange
Memberships
• AFM
• WFE
• FIA
• ASEA
Regulatory bodies
Financial Services Board (FSB) –
General market
information
South Africa’s current inflation rate is around 6.6% with the prime interest rate set at 10.50%.
Current trading range of the US$ to the local currency, South African Rand is R13.60-R13.80 to 1 US$.
Johannesburg Stock Exchange
