“Whether it’s family offices, whether it’s global macro folks, whether it’s the RV guys looking at cash versus future markets, all of those guys would find a big use for what we are putting out there,” said William Chin, SGX’s head of rates and derivatives, in an interview. “We would love to build out a Japan rates curve.”
(Jan 19): Singapore Exchange Ltd will introduce futures on longer-dated Japanese government bonds as trading in the world’s third-biggest debt market heats up.
SGX will make 20-year mini JGB futures available for trading on Jan 26, just a few days after the Bank of Japan sets monetary policy. The contracts will expand SGX’s current suite of offerings, which includes 10-year full-sized and mini JGB futures, as well as Tokyo overnight average rate futures.
