Connecting Investors to African Opportunities
The JSE is a multi-asset class stock exchange that offers listings, trading clearing and settlement, information services and issuer services. Founded in 1887, the JSE is Africa’s largest stock exchange by market capitalisation. It is the 17th largest stock exchange in the world.
The JSE demutualised and listed on its own exchange in 2005. Since then, the listed entity JSE Limited has evolved into a leading, diversified exchange services Group through organic growth and acquisitions.
On this website, you learn about our role, history, Group structure, financial performance and approach to governance and sustainability. We have also included information relevant to our shareholders, such as share performance, our reporting suite, annual general meeting information and the latest SENS announcements.
We connect buyers and sellers through financial products, supported by world-class technology and regulatory oversight.
Listing Services (Primary Market)
The JSE is an attractive capital raising destination for the listing of securities and debt instruments.
Equity Market
Established companies seeking capital to grow their businesses list on the JSE’s Main Board. Smaller, high-potential businesses not ready for a Main Board listing may raise capital through a listing on the JSE’s AltX.
We also offer a private market solution for companies that need to raise capital but wish to remain private.
Investment providers create and list securities like exchange-traded funds (ETFs), exchange-traded notes (ETNs) and warrants on the JSE’s Main Board.
Debt Market
We regulate Africa's largest listed Debt Market by capitalisation and liquidity. The South African government, state-owned enterprises, corporates and other African governments raise debt funding through listing bonds on the Debt Market.
Trading Services (Secondary Market)
The JSE provides trading, colocation and client support services across our markets.
Information Services
We provide reliable and transparent market data products to market professionals and data distributors. We provide live data for JSE-listed equities, derivatives and bonds and an extensive selection of historical data products.
JSE Investor Services
We offer transfer secretarial services to issuers. This includes share register maintenance, issuer communication, the handling of corporate actions and share scheme management. We also have a central securities depository participant offering.
Issuer Services
We assist our listed companies with a range of services. These include a premium venue for results presentations and investor engagements, annual general meeting facilitation and training through the JSE Training Academy.
Our regulatory role
We are a self-regulatory organisation, licensed in terms of section 8 of the Financial Markets Act, 19 of 2012. We are the front-line regulator of issuers and trading and clearing members through the Issuer Regulation and Market Regulation divisions.
Our Issuer Regulation division is responsible for the JSE Listings Requirements and their interpretation, application and enforcement. The Market Regulation division oversees trading across the JSE’s markets to identify market abuse, including insider trading and market manipulation.
Our purpose, vision, values and ethical culture
We are committed to a vision of a prosperous and inclusive South Africa within a dynamic and developing continent.
Featured news
JSE delivers strong half-year performance, achieving broad-based growth across business lines
Johannesburg, 4 August 2026: The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) today announced a robust set of financial results for the first half of its financial year, ensuring the Group enters its next strategic growth phase from a position of resilience, financial strength and strategic clarity. The bourse’s performance was driven by elevated equity market activity, disciplined cost management and focused execution across its core business lines, and a diversified revenue base, demonstrating high quality of earnings.
"The JSE delivered a strong first-half performance, with operating income up 14.6% and headline earnings per share increasing by 18.8%. Growth was broad-based, supported by strong activity across our markets, disciplined cost management and continued contribution from our diversified revenue streams..
Our operational performance remained strong, with 99.99% market availability and zero market outages. Together with a robust balance sheet and strong cash generation, this provides a solid foundation for FORGE 2031, our strategy to strengthen the competitiveness, growth and long-term relevance of the JSE.
We remain focused on executing against our strategic priorities, investing selectively in future growth opportunities and delivering sustainable value for shareholders."
- Valdene Reddy, Group CEO
