KARACHI: Pakistan Stock Exchange integrated and completed the pilot run of its surveillance system at the end of March in coordination with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, the bourse said in a statement on Wednesday.

In the exercise, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) pilot version of surveillance software was integrated with the existing trading system of PSX to further strengthen the market surveillance capabilities.

“In November 2019, PSX had signed a contract with SZSE for the acquisition of a trading and surveillance System to bring the technological and operational systems of PSX at par with other stock exchanges around the world”, it stated and added that the new system can now monitor trading on a real-time basis.

Published in Dawn, April 9th, 2020