<p>The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) said on Sunday it will launch equity trading on Bolt Plus, country’s fastest trading platform, from April 7.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“We are launching equity cash segment for trading on our Bolt Plus platform on April 7 this year. We have already launched currency Futures & Options in November 2013, interest rates futures in January and equity derivatives on February 7 this year on Bolt Plus Live platform,” Bombay Stock Exchange CEO and MD Ashish Chauhan said.<br /><br />BSE upgraded its technology platform in November 2013 to BOLT+. The BSE trading system (Bolt Plus) is based on T7, the global trading architecture of Deutsche Bourse AG.<br /><br />“The technology currently offers 200 micro seconds as the order execution speed and can handle 5 lakh orders per second. Going forward BSE intends to increase the speed further to 20 microseconds by 2016 with an order taking capacity of 50 lakh orders per second,” a source familiar with the new technology said.</p>
<p>The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) said on Sunday it will launch equity trading on Bolt Plus, country’s fastest trading platform, from April 7.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“We are launching equity cash segment for trading on our Bolt Plus platform on April 7 this year. We have already launched currency Futures & Options in November 2013, interest rates futures in January and equity derivatives on February 7 this year on Bolt Plus Live platform,” Bombay Stock Exchange CEO and MD Ashish Chauhan said.<br /><br />BSE upgraded its technology platform in November 2013 to BOLT+. The BSE trading system (Bolt Plus) is based on T7, the global trading architecture of Deutsche Bourse AG.<br /><br />“The technology currently offers 200 micro seconds as the order execution speed and can handle 5 lakh orders per second. Going forward BSE intends to increase the speed further to 20 microseconds by 2016 with an order taking capacity of 50 lakh orders per second,” a source familiar with the new technology said.</p>