News Release

Apr. 13, 2026 OSE Listing of FX Futures, Pocket Gold 100 Futures, and Pocket Platinum 100 Futures

FX Futures, Pocket Gold 100 Futures, and Pocket Platinum 100 Futures were listed on Osaka Exchange, Inc. (OSE) today. In connection with this, a ceremony was held in the atrium on the 1st Floor of the Osaka Securities Exchange Building.

Comments from Tagaya Akira, President & CEO of OSE

FX Futures, Pocket Gold 100 Futures, and Pocket Platinum 100 Futures were listed on OSE today. The underliers of FX Futures are three currency pairs—USD/JPY, EUR/JPY, and CNH/JPY—and the underliers of Pocket Gold 100 Futures and Pocket Platinum 100 Futures are the prices of Gold Standard Futures and Platinum Standard Futures respectively.

OSE developed the three FX Futures in order to satisfy the strong and long-standing demand for a way to perform FX risk hedging on JPX’s markets. I believe that FX Futures will make investing more convenient, since investors will be able to trade JPX-listed products and perform FX risk hedging in a one-stop manner. I also hope that FX Futures will encourage the entry of investors who had been unable to enter before because of FX risk and that those new investors will further invigorate JPX’s derivatives market.

With their smaller contract units, Pocket Gold 100 Futures (whose contract unit is one-tenth the size of a Gold Standard Futures contract unit) and Pocket Platinum 100 Futures (whose contract unit is one-fifth the size of a Platinum Standard Futures contract unit) have been designed to be easy for retail investors to trade. Recently, investors have grown more interested in precious metals because their prices are at historically high levels and trending upward. Therefore, I hope that Pocket Gold 100 Futures and Pocket Platinum 100 Futures, which are geared toward retail investors, will see brisk trading.

Going forward, OSE will continue to provide risk hedging opportunities and tools to investors in Japan and overseas and strive to operate a market that is highly convenient for them.