[3] The Edinburgh Stock Exchange was originally located in a "front room flat" at No.
[5] In 1964, the Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee stock exchanges came together to form the Scottish Stock Exchange, while still continuing to trade locally in each city, but with Glasgow as the main branch.
A new Edinburgh Stock Exchange, called SCOTEX, has been proposed for 2017/18 by a team of former traders from the US stock exchange Nasdaq, pending the outcome of an application to the Financial Conduct Authority.
[8] The proposed Stock Exchange would be a “Scots-50” index to rank Scotland's leading listed companies.
[9] This has been proposed in light of the UK's Brexit vote, and the expectation of a further Scottish Independence Referendum, by 2019, which did not transpire.