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NSE remains largest global derivatives market for 4th straight year

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The National Stock Exchange (NSE) has emerged as the world’s largest derivatives exchange in 2022 by the number of contracts traded based on statistics maintained by the Futures Industry Association (FIA), a derivatives trade body.

Also, NSE ranked 3rd in the world in the equity segment by the number of trades (electronic order book) in 2022, an advancement from the previous year when it ranked 4th as per statistics maintained by the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE).

The calendar year witnessed the benchmark equity index – the Nifty 50 touching lifetime high of 18,887.60. Significant strengthening in liquidity was witnessed in most of the product categories including equity, equity derivatives and currency derivatives.

In the equity segment, exchange traded funds (ETFs) daily average turnover stood at Rs 470 crores in CY2022, an increase of 51% YoY. Sovereign Gold Bonds daily average turnover in the secondary market stood at Rs 7 crores in CY 2022, an increase of 59% YoY. Government securities which have been made available in the equity segment of NSE is also seeing significant growth, albeit on a lower base with volumes touching a daily average turnover of Rs 3 crores in the last month.

In the derivatives segment, the recently launched derivatives on the Nifty Financial Services index has witnessed a successful built up in liquidity along the lines of derivatives on the Nifty 50 index and Nifty Bank index.

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“NSE is expected to shortly begin the Social Stock Exchange as a segment subject to regulatory approvals. This would enable ‘Social Enterprises’ particularly non-profit organizations to showcase their work to a wider audience & mobilize funds through the issuance of instruments such as zero coupon zero principal bonds, facilitate participants to participate in philanthropic causes and bring in efficiency & transparency in the overall ecosystem,” NSE said in a release.

On the derivatives side, NSE is working on new products in the currency & interest rate segment as well as the commodity derivatives segment and will announce the launch shortly, subject to regulatory approvals.Earlier, in the equity segment, beginning January 27, 2023, all securities available for trading on NSE will settle on a T+1 basis. The achievement is significant considering the size and scale of operations in the equity segment, NSE said.

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