Warsaw Stock Exchange

Warsaw Stock Exchange
Giełda Papierów Wartościowych w Warszawie
TypeStock exchange
LocationWarsaw, Poland
Coordinates52°13′49.0″N 21°1′24.5″E / 52.230278°N 21.023472°E / 52.230278; 21.023472
FoundedMay 12, 1817; 207 years ago (1817-05-12)
April 12, 1991; 33 years ago (1991-04-12) (in current form)
OwnerMinistry of State Treasury and private investors
Key peopleTomasz Bardziłowski (CEO)
CurrencyPLN
No. of listings410 (2024)
Market cap€ 349.31 billion (2024)
IndicesWIG
WIG20
WIG30
Websitegpw.pl

The Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) (Polish: Giełda Papierów Wartościowych w Warszawie (GPW)) is a stock exchange in Warsaw, Poland. Founded in 1817, it was located in the Saxon Palace until 1877 when it was moved to the Exchange Building at the Saxon Garden. Currently, it is located at ul. Książęca 4 in the Śródmieście District of Warsaw in the Exchange Center Building (Polish: Centrum Giełdowe) opened in 2000. As of September 2024, there are 410 companies, including 42 foreign ones, quoted on the stock exchange whose market capitalization amounts to PLN 1.50 trillion (EUR 349.31 billion),[1] making it the largest stock exchange in Central and Eastern Europe.[2] The most important stock market indices of the Warsaw Stock Exchange are WIG20, WIG30, MWIG40 and SWIG80. Trading at Warsaw runs from 08:30 to 17:00 with closing auction from 17:00-17:05.

The WSE is a member of the Federation of European Securities Exchanges. On 17 December 2013, the WSE also joined the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative.[3]

On 23 August 2023, the company formed EuroCTP as a joint venture with 13 other bourses, in an effort to provide a consolidated tape for the European Union, as part of the Capital Markets Union proposed by the European Commission.[4][5]

  1. ^ "GPW-Statistics". Warsaw Stock Exchange. Retrieved 2024-09-11.
  2. ^ Jo Harper (16 April 2021). "The Warsaw Stock Exchange 30 years on". emerging-europe.com. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
  3. ^ "Warsaw Stock Exchange Becomes Latest SSE Partner". Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative. Archived from the original on 29 June 2019. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  4. ^ "Shareholders". euroctp.eu. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
  5. ^ Jones, Huw (12 September 2023). "European bourses want to offer pan-EU share price feed to investors". Reuters. Retrieved 4 February 2024.