The Geneva Stock Exchange was a
stock exchange
A stock exchange, securities exchange, or bourse is an exchange where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell securities, such as shares of stock, bonds and other financial instruments. Stock exchanges may also provide facilities for th ...
in
Geneva, Switzerland.
The first stock exchange in
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
, it was founded in 1850. Initially created as an association of
stockbrokers, it was first regulated in 1855.
It was more successful than rival exchanges that opened up in
Basel (1866) and
Zurich (1873), as it allowed public access. It attracted a lot of attention from banks in German-speaking Switzerland in the 1920s and 1930s and the dominance of the Geneva Stock Exchange formed the basis of Geneva's prominence in international finance.
It merged into the fully automated
SWX Swiss Exchange electronic trading exchange between 1993 and 1995.
References
Stock exchanges in Europe
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