life in financial markets: latest shareholding of mcx, ncdex & nmce

I present below the latest shareholding in three main commodity derivatives exchanges in India as compiled by me:

LATEST SHAREHOLDING IN:
MCX: Multi Commodity Exchange of India
NCDEX: National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange
NMCE: National Multi Commodity Exchange of India
MCX - As on August 9, 2011		NCDEX - As on June 30, 2011		NMCE - As on September 30, 2011
No. of paid up shares of face value Rs 10 each (in million)	50.99	No. of paid up shares of face value Rs 10 each (in million)	50.67	No. of paid up shares of face value Rs 10 each (in million)	19.11
Number of shareholders	854	Number of shareholders	13	Number of shareholders	12
Stake held by: (in %)		Stake held by: (in %)		Stake held by: (in %)
Financial Technologies (India)	31.18	Jaypee Capital Services	22.38	Neptune Overseas	30.18
State Bank of India	5.18	Shree Renuka Sugars	12.50	Central Warehousing Corporation	29.70
FID Funds (Mauritius)	5.00	National Stock Exchange of India	11.10	Bajaj Holdings and Investment	12.82
Passport India Investments (Mauritius)	4.90	Life Insurance Corporation of India	11.10	Reliance Capital	8.72
IFCI	4.79	National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development	11.10	Punjab National Bank	8.12
Euronext N.V	4.79	Indian Farmer Fertiliser Cooperative	8.88	Gujarat Agro Industries Corporation	5.47
Aginyx Enterprises Ltd	4.79	Punjab National Bank	7.29	National Agriculture Co-operative Marketing Federation of India	3.92
Merrill Lynch Holdings (Mauritius)	4.79	Canara Bank	6.03	Anil S Singhania	0.87
Corporation Bank	3.48	Crisil	3.70	Kailash R Gupta	0.20
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development	3.06	IntercontinentalExchange Holdings	2.96	Shankarlal M Guru	0.0008
ICICI Emerging Sectors Fund	2.65	Goldman Sachs Inv (Mauritius)	2.96	National Institute of Agriculture Marketing	0.0005
National Stock Exchange of India	2.45	M K Ananda Kumar	0.000023	Gujarat State Agricultural Marketing Board	0.0005
Bennett, Coleman and Company	2.24	Narendra Kumar Gupta	0.000019
GLG Financials Fund	1.92
Intel Capital (Mauritius)	1.62
Hariharan Vaidyalingam	1.06
Union Bank of India	1.03
HDFC Bank	1.03
Bank of Baroda	1.03
Bank of India	1.03
Canara Bank	1.03
New Vernon Private Equity Ltd	0.96
Alexandra Mauritius Ltd	0.96
Kotak Mahindra Trusteeship Services Ltd - A/c India Growth Fund, A Unit Scheme of SEAF India Fund	0.96
MCX ESOP Trust	0.91
Brand Equity Treaties	0.80
Paras Ajmera	0.69
State Bank of Mysore	0.51
State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur	0.51
State Bank of Hyderabad	0.51
State Bank of Patiala	0.51
State Bank of Travancore	0.51
SBI Life Insurance Co. Ltd	0.51
ICICI Lombard General Insurance	0.36
HT Media	0.20
IGSB-STAD I	0.17
817 other shareholders	1.85
Source: The three exchanges' filings with Registrar of Companies

life in financial markets: which commodities (in derivatives) trade more in india?

I was having a look at the 28Aug09 trading value numbers of the derivative contracts traded on the two commodity derivatives exchanges in India – National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Ltd (NCDEX) and Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (MCX). The idea was to get a sense of which commodities are currently attracting the most trades on both the exchanges.

I give below two tables (click on the two images to see the tables enlarged and clear) that give each commodity’s percentage of total traded value. But, in brief, it is seen that futures on Guar Seed, Chana, Soya Oil, Soyabean, Turmeric and Guar Gum dominated the trading on NCDEX while futures on Crude Oil, Copper, Gold, Silver, Nickel and Natural Gas dominated the trading on MCX.