News and timeline
Dated events, newest first. Each line links to its source.
- Oct 19, 2026 CECO Environmental (CECO) and International Bancshares (IBOC) moved their primary listings from Nasdaq to the Texas Stock Exchange. These were transfers, not IPOs. [Texas Stock Exchange] [CECO] [IBOC 8-K]
- Oct 13, 2026 Origin Bancorp, Inc. (OBK), the Louisiana-based parent of Origin Bank, moved its listing from the NYSE to the Texas Stock Exchange. [Origin] [8-K] [Texas Stock Exchange]
- Oct 8, 2026 Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI) moved its common and preferred stock from Nasdaq to the Texas Stock Exchange. The company plans to change the tickers to TXCP and TXCP PRB on Nov 9, 2026. [Texas Capital] [Texas Stock Exchange]
- Oct 7, 2026 Charles Schwab (SCHW) added a secondary listing on the Texas Stock Exchange. Its primary listing stays on the NYSE. [Schwab] [Form 8-A] [Texas Stock Exchange]
- Oct 5, 2026 The Texas Stock Exchange got its first company primary listings. Energy Transfer (ET), Sunoco (SUN), SunocoCorp (SUNC) and USA Compression (USAC) moved theirs over. So did Dillard's (DDS), after reincorporating in Texas. None of these were IPOs. The companies were already public. [Texas Stock Exchange] [ET 8-K] [Texas Stock Exchange] [Dillard's 8-K]
- Sep 16, 2026 The Texas Stock Exchange got its first primary listings: two Texas Capital exchange-traded funds, TXS and OILT, transferred from NYSE Arca. [Texas Stock Exchange]
- Aug 27, 2026 NYSE Texas opened its headquarters at Old Parkland in Dallas. Its parent, ICE, says more than 120 issuers are listed there. [ICE]
- Jul 10, 2026 The Texas Stock Exchange began live trading in five securities already listed elsewhere (PBA, PDFS, SPHD, SRRK and VCYT), after production testing started July 6. More symbols were added in phases, and all were live by July 31. [Texas Stock Exchange] [Launch alert] [July 31 release] [Venable]
- Jun 12, 2026 SpaceX, a Texas corporation based at Starbase, began trading as SPCX on Nasdaq and Nasdaq Texas. The day before, it priced 555,555,555 shares at $135 each, raising about $75 billion. [SEC filing] [SpaceX] [Reuters] [Nasdaq]
- Jun 10, 2026 Houston-based ERock began trading on the NYSE as EROC. It priced 27,906,977 shares at $21.50 on June 9. [ERock]
- May 13, 2026 Houston geothermal company Fervo Energy began trading on Nasdaq as FRVO. Its upsized IPO priced 70 million shares at $27, raising $1.89 billion. [Fervo] [Reuters]
- Apr 22, 2026 An adviser to the Texas Stock Exchange told Bloomberg the first IPOs there are expected in early 2027. [Bloomberg]
- Mar 5, 2026 Nasdaq Texas launched as a dual-listing exchange incorporated in Texas and based in Dallas. Its first group included APA, Construction Partners, J.B. Hunt, Huntington Bancshares, ProFrac and Nasdaq itself. [Nasdaq] [Nasdaq Texas]
- Sep 30, 2025 The SEC approved the Texas Stock Exchange as a national securities exchange. The Texas State Securities Board recognized it the same day. [SEC] [TSSB] [Reuters]
- May 14, 2025 Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 29, which writes the business judgment rule into Texas law. It took effect immediately. [Texas Legislature] [Governor]
- May 13, 2025 Senate Bill 1058 was signed. Starting Jan 1, 2026, a registered securities exchange in Texas can leave certain securities-transaction payments out of the revenue used for the state franchise tax. [Texas Legislature]
- Mar 31, 2025 NYSE Texas opened in Dallas, the first securities exchange incorporated in Texas. [ICE]
- Mar 18, 2025 Nasdaq announced a regional headquarters in Dallas. [Reuters]
- Jan 31, 2025 The Texas Stock Exchange filed its Form 1 application with the SEC. [SEC]
- Sep 1, 2024 The Texas Business Court began hearing cases, with divisions in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Fort Worth and Houston. [Texas courts]