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The OTC Exchange of India has been set up by leading Financial institutions like UTI, IDBI, ICICI, LIC and GIC, expressly to provide an ideal avenue for corporates of all the sizes, with special focus on small scale companies, to raise resources from the capital market.

The Exchange provides sophisticated trading mechanisms like Bought out Deals, Market Making and Sponsorship which makes it very convenient for the small and medium sized companies to access the capital market.

It is the only exchange allowing nation-wide as well as regional listing for smaller companies. The minimum requirement of Rs. 30 lakhs of post issue paid-up capital for a company to list on the Exchange facilitates even small enterprise promoters to set up new ventures or expand their activities.

The Exchange also provides its constituents with the advantage of trading in innovative financial instruments like Debentures, Units of Mutual Funds, Bonds and other Corporate papers.

The Exchange uses the state-of-the-art Technology and Trading Mechanism to promote transparent and widespread transactions across the country. OTC Exchange of India has a Memorandum of Understanding with NASDAQ, USA which entails mutual exchange of information, training in various aspects of capital market and access to the global market.