Tag: FTSE Russell

The new trading window – 9am to 4pm WAT – follows the recent reclassification of Nigeria from an unclassified to frontier market status, authorised by FTSE Russell.  

Panellists speaking at the JSE SA Trade Connect conference in Cape Town highlight the importance of resilience, as market unpredictability increasingly becomes part of the fabric of the industry. 

The move will include the renaming of FTSE Blossom Japan Index and the FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index and aims to facilitate ESG integration in the Japanese market.  

New collaboration will target growing investor demand for exchange-traded derivatives to manage crypto exposure in a US-regulated trading environment.

New development will utilise an improved methodology which helps enable additional transparency into bid and offer price information.

Fixed income closing prices will be derived from trading activity on Tradeweb’s platform and will be administered as benchmarks by FTSE Russell.

Closing prices will be created for Euro-denominated nominal bonds issued by Austria, Belgium, Finland, European Union, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain.

New head of equity index product for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) has spent the last 14 years at BlackRock in institutional and index equity focused roles.

The partnership between the two entities will see three futures contracts and one option list on the 29 March.

New derivatives from SGX and FTSE aim to provide investors the opportunity to integrate ESG factors into investment portfolios.