Harishchand Betala is no ordinary shareholder. Among the 262 shareholders selling their stake in the BSE, he is the one who has offered to sell the least number of shares.

Betala has offered to sell 150 shares in Asia’s oldest bourse, BSE Ltd, even as other shareholders will sell over 2.9 crore shares, of face value ₹1 each.

BSE filed the draft red-herring prospectus (DRHP) for its IPO with securities market regulator SEBI on Friday, paving the way for a listing on rival stock exchange NSE.

SEBI regulations mandate that exchanges cannot list themselves. According to the offer document, BSE has received an in-principle approval from the NSE to list its shares.

Singapore Exchange Ltd, Acacia Mauritius Ltd and Quantum (M) have offered their entire stake for sale in the offer for sale.

A stake of up to 30 per cent in the BSE will sold through the IPO to raise about ₹1,300 crore.

Interestingly, DIIs (domestic institutional investors) such as SBI and LIC are not selling even a single share of BSE Ltd though they figure in the list of top 10 shareholders.

Founded on July 9, 1875, BSE is the world’s 11th largest exchange by market capitalisation ($1.52 trillion) of listed companies besides being the largest in terms of the number of listed companies.

Revenue sources BSE’s sources of revenue include securities services, services to corporates, data dissemination fees, investments and deposits. Its topline in FY16 was ₹426.54 crore and net profit was ₹122.53 crore.

Edelweiss, Axis Capital, Jefferies, Nomura, Motilal Oswal, SBI Caps, SMC and Spark Capital are the book running lead managers for the issue. Karvy Computershare is the registrar.

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