Vienna Stock Exchange Acquires One Of The World’s Largest Derivatives Exchanges As New Index Customer

The Vienna Stock Exchange has acquired the Eurex Exchange, one of the world’s largest trading venues for derivatives, as new index licensee. The license will enable Eurex to issue financial products on indices of the Vienna Stock Exchange. The Vienna Stock Exchange currently calculates and publishes 89 indices based on which more than 130 international financial institutions have already issued various structured products.

The Vienna Stock Exchange has a multi-decade track record of index know-how and a solid international reputation for index expertise, especially for Eastern Europe and Russia. Out of the 89 indices it currently calculates, 66 are related to CEE and CIS markets. The most popular indices for structured products at the moment are the Austrian leading index ATX, the Eastern Europe index CECE and the Russian index RDX.