The government has provided tax breaks to increase the number of listings, but companies have been slow in going public.

Although this creation is relatively old, the role of the stock market in financing Tunisia's economy has remained limited or insignificant due to the dominance of the state and banks .

To meet international standards, reform is adopted with the promulgation of the Law of 14 November 1994 on the reorganization of financial market.

This law creates the new public regulator: the Financial Market Council, which began operations on 15 November 1995.

Following this major reform of the Tunis Stock Exchange that establishes the foundations of a financial market, potentially able to finance part of the economy, the situation continues to evolve fifty companies listed in March 2009, for a market capitalization of up to 8.7 billion dinars (against 3.1 billion in 2004) or 16% of national GDP.