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Osaka Exchange, Inc. (OSE), the derivatives arm of Japan Exchange Group, the mother market of Nikkei 225, announced that it has won the award for “Exchange of the Year – Derivatives” at the FOW and Global Investor Asia Capital Markets Awards ceremony held in Singapore.
The award recognizes OSE’s successful launch of new trading platform “New J-GATE” in July 2016, and simultaneously introduced extended Night Session (NS) to cover almost all night trading opportunities and new products such as TSE Mothers Index Futures linked to the unique start-up companies’ market index. The judges praised OSE not only for new functionalities but also the expanded trading opportunities and new Japanese equities hedging opportunities for wide range of investors.
The award also recognizes OSE’s successful 10th anniversary of Nikkei 225 mini; its trading volume grew 20 times larger in the past 10 years and became the world’s third most actively traded equity index futures for the year 2016.
“We are delighted to have won this award and consider this as recognition for our continued effort to cultivate and improve our market to meet our customers’ needs,” said Hiromi Yamaji, President and CEO, OSE. “We remain committed to our mission of improving market liquidity and price discovery through further introduction of highly convenient systems and services.”
The Asia Capital Markets Awards is the newly launched awards programme following the creation of the Global Investor Group, incorporating FOW (Futures & Options World), Global Investor and ISF. The Awards are an expansion of FOW’s Awards for Asia program and represent the largest, buyside-led capital markets awards in Asia judged by a panel of industry experts drawn from across the market in a range of disciplines.
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