The architecture and decorations were intended to highlight the financial power that the Genoese market, due to its high volume of business, expressed at the beginning of the 20th century, when it was the first Italian stock exchange.

In 1822, a commission was set up by the Chamber of Commerce to fix the exchange rates between Genoa and the most important European trading centres on the basis of the average of bargained prices.

The 1840s saw the restoration of the Loggia della Mercanzia (Genova) the building dedicated to stock exchange trading with a first chamber regulation, with 1845 came the first list the Corso dei cambi with the quotations of government bonds and shares.

The imposing and monumental facade with rusticated pillars has a rounded and rosy shape in the neo-sixteenth-century style suitable for Carbone to enhance the splendor of the client.

The facade is covered in red Verona marble and reddish Filettole stone[1] and towards Piazza De Ferrari it has a gigantic pediment with the inscription Borsa, in golden color like the domes of the building .

Inside is the 960 m2 La sala delle grilla, the largest in Italy at the time it was built, surrounded by thirty-nine scagni for trading by stockbrokers and bankers and by eighteen gigantic bronze candelabra, sixteen remaining today, three meters high and designed by Adolfo Coppedé who wanted them made by the Fonderie del Pignone; in the center Coppedè wanted to create a large hall in the shape of an ellipse with marble columns to support a dome with a skylight on which are the image of St. George and the dragon, a motif taken up on the gigantic wrought iron gate where they are always the same image of St. George and the dragon.