Minister of Finance of the Union and Minister of Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman and Managing Director and CEO of BSE SLUARAMAN RAMAMURTHY DOOR BSES Celebration of the 150th Anniversary
The Minister of Finance of the Union and Minister of Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman, said that the global commercial recalibration efforts and the wars have challenges, but “they are not worrisome” while adding the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Bombay Stock Exchange on the description.
“The recalibration efforts in trade are very challenging. I would say that they are the world, to be a point, but most importantly, they will be very challenges,” Silver site in the event and the EGT where Sheya -she received commemorative.
The finance minister said that protectionist policies could alter global supply chains, increase production costs and create uncertainty in cross -border investment decisions, with domain effects on financial markets around the world, including the Indies.
Sitharaman emphasized that, although the increase of India of being the tenth largest economy in 2014 to the fifth largest update of today repises significant progress, clarifying future growth would require careful planning.
“We will be the third largest (economy).
“To reach the third position itself is an immense pride, but sustaining our will require much more planning and leading to Occ front,” he added.
Despite the winds against global, Sitharaman highlighted the resistance of the financial markets of India, citing that foreign portfolio investors channeled more than ₹ 17,500 million rupees in financial shares in the second half of March 2025. Recording of total tickets of ₹ 6.1 Lakh Crore in the last financial year, far exceeding the Netflows Netflows Netflows.
“This transition from Diis of support of support to a dominant force underlines the growing maturity and depth of the capital market of India,” he said.
The finance minister praised retail investors, partly young and women, for their growing participation in capital markets. “The median age of Indian investors is 32 years old with more than 40 percent of them under 30 and one in four investors today is a woman,” he said.
However, in May 2024, he had warned about the “un controlled explosion” in high -risk futures and options for retail investors, warning that domestic finances could negatively affect.
“Any explosion without control in retail trade in F&P can create future challenges, not only for markets, but also for the feeling of investors and also for home finances,” he said in an earlier event of previous EEB, addressing with child’s child’s children children children children children children payroll children children Child ninos ninos ninos ninos ninos ninos ninos ninneed ninneed ninneed ninneed nine Nineed Nineed Nineed Nineed.
In Thursday’s event, Sitharaman accredited the EEB with the modernization of its operations through the adoption of technology, pointing out the exchange capacity to process 1.5 billion orders per day and 14 LAKH of orders per second, with average completion times of less than 200 microseconds.
FM vision
She described her vision for the capital markets of India as “deep and diverse, globally integrated, digitally safe and sustainable and inclusive,” emphasizing the need for continuous innovation in financial products that attract all strata of society.
“To truly democratize investments, the exchanges of values must continually innovate and design accessible, understandable and aligned products with the risk appetite and the savings behavior of our citizens,” he said.
Sitharaman emphasized the importance of investor education programs in regional languages in urban and rural areas, aiming students, the elderly, women, women, rural investors and first -time merchants, saying that ingenuity becomes becoming becoming becoming becoming becoming becoming coexistence.
Posted on April 17, 2025