[4] Along with the Securities Commission of Malaysia, the stock exchange regulates the capital market in Malaysia and, through its facilities, upholds the duty to manage and maintain order in the trading of stocks, bonds and derivatives.

[5] Bursa Malaysia was established in 1930, when the Singapore Stockbrokers Association became an official organization of securities in Malaya.

In 1960, the Malayan Stock Exchange was formed and public trading started on 9 May that year.

In 1961, a board system was introduced in two trading places, one in Singapore and one in Kuala Lumpur.

It also fully suspended the trading of CLOB (Central Limit Order Book) counters, indefinitely freezing approximately US$4.47 billion worth of shares and affecting 172,000 investors, most of them Singaporeans.