Listed Derivatives

The products offer market participants liquid exposure to an industry whose sales are booming on demand from artificial intelligence, mobile gadgets and electronic vehicles.

Five years since the launch of futures on the STOXX Europe 600 ESG-X index, the Eurex-STOXX partnership in ESG derivatives now includes nearly a dozen listed products. Volumes continue to pick up, testimony to increasing investor interest and evolving regulation in the region.

Mid-curve options on dividend futures give market participants a more targeted instrument, with quarterly expirations, to gain exposure on the direction of European dividend payments.

Eurex will launch futures on the STOXX Europe 600 SRI (Socially Responsible Investing), an index with extended exclusions as well as emissions and best-in-class ESG filters. The offering follows the successful adoption of similar contracts on the STOXX EUROPE 600 ESG-X, launched in 2019.

Daily expirations allow market participants to finetune hedging and accurately implement strategies around specific events such as economic data releases. More than 670,000 EURO STOXX 50 daily options have traded since their August listing.

The derivatives exchange with the broadest index offering globally and the leading European index provider have produced some of the most popular and creative index futures and options since both started operations 25 years ago. We catch up with Eurex’s CEO and STOXX’s General Manager to find out what’s next for this successful partnership.