The International Stock Exchange


The International Stock Exchange is a stock exchange headquartered in St. Peter Port, Guernsey.
The TISE provides a responsive and innovative listing facility for international companies to raise capital from investors based around the globe. It offers a regulated marketplace, with globally recognisable clients and a growing product range, from a location within the European time zone but outside the EU.

Licensing

TISE is the trading name of The International Stock Exchange Group Limited. It wholly owns The Channel Islands Securities Exchange Authority Limited which trades as The International Stock Exchange Authority which is licensed to operate an investment exchange under The Protection of Investors Law, 1987, as amended, by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission.

Jurisdictional offices

PO Box 623 Helvetia Court, Block B, Third Floor, Les Echelons,
St Peter Port, GY1 1AR Guernsey

Listings

The exchange lists a wide range of securities:
As on June 2016 there were over 2,000 listings with a total market capitalisation in excess of £300 billion.

International recognition

Recognition of the TISE:
It was launched on 20 December 2013 as the Channel Islands Securities Exchange when the Royal Court of Guernsey approved an arrangement for it to acquire the business of the Channel Islands Stock Exchange.
An office was opened in Jersey in February 2015.
In June 2016 the CISE listed its own shares on its own exchange. The Channel Islands Securities Exchange Authority Limited 2,461,000 ordinary shares have a limited market at present.
December 2016 saw a world-first with a listing on CISE of a global bitcoin fund.
February 2017 saw an announcement that the exchange would rebrand as "The International Stock Exchange". The rules of the exchange having been recently changed to allow listing sponsors to be based in places other than in the Channel Islands. In March 2017 the rebranding was completed and an office was opened in the Isle of Man.