- CEO
- Ivana Gažic
- Full Time Employees
- 37
- Sector
- Finance
- Industry
- Investment banks/Brokers
- Address
- Zagreb Croatia
- Business
- Zagrebačka burza d.d. (Zagreb Stock Exchange) is a financial market infrastructure operator that manages the central regulated securities market and multilateral trading facilities in the Republic of Croatia and the broader Adriatic region. Founded in 1991, with institutional roots tracing back to the establishment of the Zagreb Commodity and Valuta Exchange in 1907, the company is headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia. The exchange functions as the primary venue for capital formation, secondary market trading, and financial asset valuation in Croatia, operating under the regulatory supervision of the Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency (HANFA). Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Ljubljanska borza d.d. (Ljubljana Stock Exchange) in Slovenia, the company maintains a consolidated regional presence across the Central and Southeast European capital markets.
The company provides a comprehensive suite of market organization, trading, informational, and auxiliary capital market services, including: regulated equity and debt market operations comprising the Prime Market (Vodeće tržište), Official Market (Službeno tržište), and Regular Market (Redovito tržište) for the listing and trading of domestic and international shares, government bonds, municipal bonds, corporate bonds, commercial papers, and structured investment products; the Progress Market, a Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) seeking growth capital with simplified admission requirements; high-performance electronic trade execution and connectivity powered by Deutsche Börse's T7 trading architecture; real-time, delayed, and end-of-day market data dissemination, reference data feeds, and historical trading analytics for data vendors, brokers, and institutional market participants; calculation, maintenance, and licensing of proprietary benchmark indices, including the CROBEX, CROBEX10, CROBEXplus, CROBEXtech, CROBEXnutris, CROBEXtr (total return), and CROBIS bond indices; securities listing, corporate action administration, and regulatory filing publication services through its specialized disclosure platforms; official Local Operating Unit (LOU) services for the allocation and annual validation of Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) codes across regional jurisdictions; and specialized financial market education and professional certification programs conducted through the Zagreb Stock Exchange Academy (Akademija Zagrebačke burze).
The company serves a diverse institutional and retail customer base, including commercial banks, investment funds, pension fund managers, brokerage houses, liquidity providers, corporate issuers, and domestic and foreign private investors. In addition to its core trading operations, the exchange maintains strategic equity interests in central infrastructure entities, including the Central Depository and Clearing Company (SKDD d.d.), and participates in regional routing networks such as SEE Link.
In recent operational and strategic developments, Zagrebačka burza d.d. completed the seamless technical and operational transition of its entire trading, clearing settlement interface, and market data infrastructure to the Euro (EUR) following Croatia's accession to the Eurozone. The company has implemented strategic upgrades to the T7 trading platform across both the Zagreb and Ljubljana exchanges to improve execution latency, system resilience, and cross-border connectivity with European liquidity pools. To support small-cap capital access, the exchange expanded its SME growth ecosystem through technical cooperation partnerships with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and international development funds, facilitating advisory and listing support for emerging enterprises on the Progress Market. Furthermore, the exchange launched comprehensive Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting guidelines and sustainability-oriented disclosure frameworks to assist listed issuers in complying with EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requirements, alongside expanding its LEI issuance capabilities and advancing regional integration initiatives to foster liquidity and investor participation across Southeast Europe.