Indian companies have raised over Rs 2 lakh crore by issuing bonds on private placement basis on BSE's electronic book mechanism since its launch last July.
"Investors have evolved to a great extent and are now more receptive and open to diversification into new assets class," BSE chief executive and Managing Director Ashishkumar Chauhan said in a statement.
The BSE-BOND was launched on July 1 to facilitate online bidding for private placement of debt securities. Since then, 68 companies have raised Rs 2,00,111 crore through it.