The Lahore Stock Exchange Limited came into existence in October 1970, under the Securities and Exchange Ordinance of 1969 by the Government of Pakistan in response to the needs of the provincial metropolis of the province of Punjab. It initially had 83 members and was housed in a rented building in the crowded Bank Square area of Lahore. The number of listed companies has increased to 519 since its inception. With 37 sectors of the economy and 519 listed companies with total capital of Rs. 555.67 billion having market capitalization of around Rs. 2.51 trillion . The LSE has 152 members of which 81 are corporate, and 54 are individual members. The LSE was the first stock exchange in Pakistan to use the internet and currently 50% of its transactions are via the internet.
The Lahore Stock Exchange has opened branches in the industrial cities of Faisalabad and Sialkot for trading. The Sialkot branch is referred to as the "Sialkot Trading Floor".
Some of the most notable Stock Brokers/Members in Lahore Stock Exchange include: 128 Securities, Abbasi & Company, Adeel Zafar Securities, Dr. Arslan Razaque Securities, Dosslanis Securities, Habib Ullah Sheikh, Javed Iqbal Securities, KSR Stock Broker, M.R. Securities, MAHA Securities, MTM Securities(PVT)LTd, Fairway Securities (PVT) Ltd, Mubashar Latif (Ex-President), Azan Mubashar (Ex-Executive Vice-President), Abubakar Mubashar (Ex-C.E.O), Monica Labrador securities, Hilary Labrador securities.
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