The Dhaka Stock Exchange has formed a five-member panel to investigate a delay in the start to share trading on two alternate working days.

The premier bourse formed the panel on Sunday, after the stock trading started an hour late at 11:30am, an official of the Dhaka bourse said yesterday.

Usually, trading on the DSE starts at 10:30am sharp and ends right at 2:30pm on each of the five trading days of a week, but trading started an hour late at 11:30am and closed at 3:00pm on Sunday and lastWednesday.

The committee, headed by the bourse's Chief Financial Officer Shuvra Kanti Choudhury, was also asked to submit a report by today.

In a statement on Sunday, the DSE attributed the delay to a technical glitch in its trading software, which arose while absorbing two new securities.

Many brokerage houses were unable to view all the instruments code on their trading terminals, according to the DSE statement. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Sunday also asked the DSE to explain the delay in start of share trading for two days. The bourse will have to explain by today the measures it has taken to prevent it from happening again.

The probe panel includes Shaikh Mohammadullah, general manager; Khandaker Asad Ullah, deputy general manager (DGM) of monitoring, investigation and compliance; Ashraful Alam, DGM of information and communication technology division; and Nizam Uddin