The WSE is a joint stock company founded by the State Treasury. It is divided into about 60,000 registered shares of 700 złotys each. The Treasury holds the largest stake (almost 99%), with the rest divided among several dozen entities, including banks and brokerage houses.
The legal framework for exchange operations is provided by three acts from 29 July 2005:
- Act on Public Offering, Conditions Governing the Introduction of Financial Instruments to Organised Trading, and Public Companies
- Act on Trading in Financial Instruments
- Act on Capital Market Supervision
Additionally, the WSE is governed by the Code of Commercial Companies of 2000, the Statutes of the Warsaw Stock Exchange, the Rules of the Warsaw Stock Exchange, and the Rules of the Stock Exchange Court.
The following instruments are traded on the WSE: shares, bonds, subscription rights, allotments, and derivatives such as futures, options, and index participation units.
Since its inception, the WSE has engaged in electronic trading. The WARSET trading platform has been in use since November 2000. An additional market called NewConnect was introduced on 30 August 2007.
The exchange has pre-market sessions from 08:00am to 09:00am, normal trading sessions from 09:00am to 04:20pm and post-market sessions from 04:20pm to 04:30pm on all days of the week except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays declared by the Exchange in advance
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