While benefiting from its close relationship with the JSE, the NSX retains control over its own listing requirements, regulations and supervision over compliance, and can adapt these according to the requirements of the domestic economy. The NSX and the JSE are both founder members of the Committee of SADC Stock Exchanges (COSSE).
The invisible-hand approach to regulation aims to align the incentives of market participants with the objectives of the regulator, thereby harnessing the same powerful forces that allow markets to work so efficiently.