National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange

The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), founded in 1875 as the Native Share & Stock Brokers Association, is Asia's oldest stock exchange and one of the world's largest by number of listed companies. While primarily an equity and debt exchange, BSE offers commodity derivatives including base metals, agricultural products, energy, and precious metals via BSE's commodity segment. BSE is headquartered in Mumbai's financial district and is regulated by SEBI. It lists over 5,500 companies and provides critical infrastructure for India's capital markets.

The Chittagong Tea Auction is one of the major tea auction centres in South Asia, located in Chittagong (Chattogram), Bangladesh. Operated by the Bangladesh Tea Board, the auction facilitates the weekly sale of CTC and orthodox teas grown in the Sylhet and Chittagong Hill Tracts tea gardens. Bangladesh is a significant tea producer, and the Chittagong auction provides benchmark pricing for Bangladeshi teas sold to domestic packers and export buyers, competing with the Kolkata and Colombo tea auction systems.

The Mongolian Commodity Exchange (MCE), established in 2013 in Ulaanbaatar, is Mongolia's primary platform for trading raw agricultural and pastoral commodities. MCE lists 21 types of raw materials across six commodity groups: cashmere, wool, livestock, grain, meat, and leather. As Mongolia is one of the world's largest producers of cashmere, MCE plays a critical role in setting domestic benchmark prices for this high-value fibre. The exchange aims to bring transparency and standardisation to Mongolia's traditional commodity trading sector.

The Manila Commodity Exchange (MCX) is a commodity and derivatives exchange based in Manila, Philippines, offering contracts across base metals, agricultural commodities, energy, and currencies. The Philippines is an emerging market for commodity derivatives with the exchange targeting regional Southeast Asian participants. MCX operates within the Philippine regulatory framework overseen by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC Philippines).