Jamaica Stock Exchange

6 Business View Caribbean cial Services Commission, which is comparable to the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). Also, the Jamaica Stock Exchange is licensed by the Financial Services Commission and regulated by it, as well. Is there a typical type or size of company that gets listed? In the states, there are different exchanges – one just for technological companies, for example. I imagine, since the Jamaica Exchange is much small- er by comparison, that any company that meets your criteria can join. Correct. So, for example, where you have the NASDAQ that is heavily technological, ours is not. So, we have banking, we have insurance, we have manufacturing – any company, so long as it meets our requirements can be listed on the Exchange. Are most of the 60 plus companies that you men- tioned, Jamaican? Yes. And you find that more and more that they are predominantly Jamaican. We also have, for example, the Trinidad Cement Company, which by virtue of its name, you realize is from Trinidad and Tobago. It is cross-listed on our Exchange. By cross-listing, I mean that it is listed on the Trinidad and Tobago Stock Ex- change and it’s also listed on ours. If a company wanted to trade its stock, are there any alternatives available? We are the only exchange that trades publicly-listed companies. A company that is listed on our Exchange trades on our Exchange, so we are the only game in town. You said that you became a demutualized exchange in 2008. Has anything else occurred recently, or planned for the near-term future, that will further im-