The Barbados Stock Exchange(BSE) is an association of Member-Brokers, operating a Central Marketplace for trading securities.

The original trading facility, the Securities Exchange of Barbados(SEB), was established in 1987, under the Securities Exchange Act, Cap 318A, of 1982. The BSE was re-incorporated on August 2, 2001 simultaneously with the enactment of the Securities Act 2001 -13, which repealed and replaced the original Act of 1982. However, the BSE remains a privately owned (by its Members), non-profit organization.

The affairs of the BSE are administered by a Board of Directors, through a General Manager.

On July 4, 2001 the BSE switched from the manual, open auction outcry method of trading, to electronic trading using the Order routing method.