Dhaka Stock Exchange Ltd (DSE) has recently achieved full membership status of the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE).

DSE will be well known in world capital market through this achievement, the bourse said in a statement yesterday.

The acknowledgement will also play an important role for attracting foreign investment, according to the statement.

The premier bourse applied for full membership of the federation in 2015.

The WFE, formerly known as La Federation Internationale des Bourses de Valeurs, is the trade association of publicly regulated stock, futures, and options exchanges across the world. At present, the federation has 67 full members.