May 30, 2014

Press Release No. 1

NSE Holds SME Conference in Haridwar

Haridwar, May 30, 2014: India’s leading stock exchange, the National Stock Exchange, organised a conference in Haridwar to educate small and medium sized companies on opportunities available to raise funds through the capital market. The conference was organised in association with the Punjab National Bank.

More than 50 SMEs from sectors like engineering, chemical, hospitality, engineering and auto components attended the conference. The companies were made aware of the benefits of raising capital through EMERGE, NSE’s trading platform for SMEs that enables these companies to list and fund their growth.

Ms. Chitra Ramkrishna, MD & CEO of NSE, Mr. Gurinder Singh, DGM, Punjab National Bank, Mr. Pankaj Gupta, President, Industries Association of Uttarakhand (IAU), Mr. P K Sinha, Director, MSME Development Institute and Mr. Manoj Gaur, State head, Uttarakhand, National Small Industries Corporation, attended the conference.

Ms. Chitra Ramkrishna said, “Through EMERGE, we are bringing together growth companies and risk investors in a well regulated environment, enabling both sides to benefit from the discipline and transparency, to create a virtuous cycle facilitating flow of risk capital to growth companies.”

Most small and medium enterprises are constrained because of lack of availability of risk capital, and the EMERGE platform provides a good opportunity for these companies because it brings together fast growing companies with a pool of investors, who want to invest in credible and high growth companies and start-ups. There are some good quality companies that are already trading on EMERGE. Many of these companies have been able to use the capital raised to expand their businesses, create value for their shareholders by issuing dividends and bonus shares and take their companies to global markets through partnerships.

SME’s can also list on NSE’s EMERGE Institutional Trading Platform cost effectively, without a public offer and can raise funds through private placements and rights issues. Listing on the ITP provides higher visibility and credibility to a company. ITP connects growing businesses with sophisticated investors like private equity funds, venture capital funds and institutions looking to invest in early stage ventures. Since the platform allows companies to come in without an IPO, many young companies see this as an attractive and cost effective way to raise money.

Press Release No. 2

NSE Holds Investor Awareness Seminar in Haridwar

Haridwar, May 30, 2014: As a part of its efforts to spread financial awareness in tier two and tier three cities, India’s leading stock exchange, the National Stock Exchange and market regulator SEBI today organised an investor awareness seminar in Haridwar to educate investors about the securities market. Haridwar has, over the years, become a major industrial hub and is home to a large, skilled workforce.

The focus of the seminar, Securities Market and the Common Man, was on educating investors about the need to invest safely, the benefits of having an investment plan and the precautions one should take while investing. The Conference was organized in partnership with the Haridwar Management association and the Industry association of Uttarakhand and was well attended by investors in the city and employees of BHEL, an important manufacturing and engineering enterprise, which runs two of its critical plants at Haridwar.

Ms Chitra Ramkrishna, MD and CEO of NSE said, “We are committed to creating financial awareness in Haridwar and other small towns in the country to help people grow their savings and plan for a financially strong future.’’

NSE officials made the investors aware about the steps they should take to ensure that their interests are protected while investing. They were cautioned against getting carried away by market rumors and against promises of exceptionally high returns. Investors were advised by NSE that they should check their statement of accounts from the broker, to verify whether the transactions were authorized. They were also familiarized with the grievance redressal mechanism.

NSE conducts many initiatives to educate investors in tier two and tier three towns on safe investing and opportunities to grow their money by investing in the markets. Many programmes are also conducted for school and college students to teach them about the basics of financial planning, so that they can plan for a more financially strong future.