Osaka Exchange, Inc. (OSE), Japan’s Largest Derivatives Exchange and mother market of Nikkei 225 Futures and Options, has been Voted as Best Asian Derivatives Venue, At FOW Awards for Asia 2014.
The award for Exchange of the Year 2014 - Asia was awarded in Singapore by a distinguished panel of industry experts and it recognizes excellence in market operations and market developments throughout the previous year.
In particular, OSE’s efforts towards the successful smooth integration of the derivatives market in March 2014, migrating the Tdex+ market onto J-GATE, as well as the broadening of the product line-up and achieving historic record volumes in spite of challenging market conditions globally were praised by the judges. Runners-up included Singapore Exchange and Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing.
“We are very proud to have won this very honorable award - and consider this as recognition for our continued effort to cultivate and improve our market to meet our customers’ needs,” said Hiromi YAMAJI, Chief Executive Officer of OSE and member of the Japan Exchange Group Board of Directors. “Over the last years we have seen unprecedented growth in quote traffic and volumes on OSE. It is imperative that we remain at the forefront of technological and market structure developments, in order to cater to our clients’ needs. We will continue to invest in technology and upgrade our current platform in 2016, in addition we are planning to embark into different asset classes and launch a wide range of new products and initiatives to further improve the attractiveness and efficiency of our market place.”
“With your continuous support and guidance, I am quite convinced that we will achieve our ambition to become ‘Your Exchange of Choice.’”
