Taiwan Stock Exchange

The Taiwan Stock Exchange, commonly abbreviated TWSE, is Taiwan's principal securities exchange and a central piece of the country's capital-market infrastructure. The exchange is operated by the Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation and is headquartered in Taipei, with its offices located in Taipei 101. It was established in 1961 and began operating as a stock exchange on 9 February 1962. The institution is regulated by Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission. TWSE provides the marketplace and related infrastructure through which eligible companies' shares and other exchange-traded securities can be listed, quoted, traded, monitored, and disclosed to investors. Its activities support primary-market access for issuers and secondary-market liquidity for domestic and international investors. The exchange also publishes market information and benchmark data, including the Taiwan Capitalization Weighted Stock Index, widely known as TAIEX. TAIEX tracks the aggregate performance of stocks listed on TWSE and is the most prominent general indicator of Taiwanese equity-market performance. The exchange operates within a broader Taiwanese securities-market system that also includes the Taipei Exchange, formerly known as the Gre Tai Securities Market. That market was established in 1994 to serve smaller and growth-oriented companies. In 2021, Taiwan introduced the Taiwan Innovation Board as an additional market designed for qualifying innovative businesses. These adjacent venues complement, rather than replace, TWSE's role as the country's main board for listed companies. TWSE's trading schedule includes a pre-opening information period, regular trading, and a fixed-price post-market session. According to the referenced description of its operations, market information is disseminated before the opening from 7:40 to 8:40, regular trading runs from 09:00 to 13:45, and a fixed-price post-market session runs from 14:00 to 15:00 on exchange business days. Sessions do not operate on weekends or holidays declared by the exchange. The exchange is especially significant to Taiwan's technology-intensive economy. Its listed-company universe includes major electronics, semiconductor, manufacturing, financial, and other businesses. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is among the globally prominent companies listed on TWSE, illustrating the exchange's importance to international investors seeking exposure to Taiwan's semiconductor and high-technology sectors. TWSE's role therefore extends beyond providing a trading venue: it supports issuer disclosure, price discovery, investor access, market data distribution, and the credibility of Taiwan's public-company ecosystem. As a regulated market institution, TWSE operates under rules governing listing, trading, disclosure, market surveillance, and investor protection. Its brand is associated with formal exchange supervision, transparent market information, benchmark-index administration, and access to Taiwan's listed-equity market. Detailed information on its ownership structure, senior executives, and financial performance is not included here because those facts were not established by the supplied reference material.

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