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- JSE Limited JSE Limited (JSE.JO) operates as Africa's largest multi-asset class stock exchange, providing listing, trading, clearing, settlement, information, and issuer services primarily in South Africa with connections to global markets. Founded in 1887 and headquartered at One Exchange Square in Sandton, Johannesburg, the company offers equity listings on its Main Board and AltX for smaller high-growth firms, debt instruments including government and corporate bonds, exchange-traded funds, exchange-traded notes, warrants, and derivatives encompassing equities, financial, commodities, interest rate products; it delivers trading via the Millennium Exchange platform, colocation and client support, post-trade risk management and settlement through Strate, transfer secretarial services for share registers and corporate actions, market data products with live and historical feeds for equities, bonds, and derivatives, issuer services such as results presentations, investor engagements, AGM facilitation, and training via the JSE Training Academy, as well as a private placements platform for capital raising. JSE Limited maintains operations as a self-regulatory organization under South Africa's Financial Markets Act, serving established companies, SMEs, governments, state-owned enterprises, and investment providers across Africa-focused capital markets. Recent developments include welcoming Cell C to the Main Board in November 2025 as part of its restructuring for enhanced equity access, expansion of the SME Rise Programme in 2025 with over 1,000 applications and a funder network grown to 11 partners securing R26.5 million in funding, robust half-year financial performance to August 2025 with net profit after tax up 13.2% to R557.8 million driven by equity activity and diversified revenues, and ongoing infrastructure modernization ahead of schedule including big data analytics milestones.