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Location
Taipei, Taiwan
Web site
Founded
1997
AFM Member since
2007
Management
• Dr. Len-Yu Liu, Chairman
• Dr. Peter Chiu, CEO
• Mr. Chao-Shun Yang, Senior Vice President, Business Development Department
• Ms. Denise Huang, Vice President, Business Development Department
AFM Contact Person
Mr. Peter Chen
Business Development Department
Type of Institution
Futures Exchange
Trading or service
offering
Trading for Futures and Options products
Main products
• Equity Index Futures and Options
• Single Stock Futures
• Equity Options
Market capitalisation (USD)
Trading volume (2016) 241,678,556 contracts with average daily volume of 992,736 contracts
Exchange partnerships
• Eurex - TAIFEX launched Eurex/TAIFEX Link on 15 May 2014
• Japan Exchange Group (JPX) -TAIFEX launched TOPIX futures at TAIFEX on 21 December 2015
• National Stock Exchange of India Ltd (NSE) - TAIFEX launched Nifty 50 futures at TAIFEX on
7 November 2016
Memberships
• WFE
• IOSCO
• FIA
• ICDA
• IOMA
• CCP12
• AFM
Regulatory bodies
Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) –
General market
information
Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX), established in 1997, provides products across several classes,
including equity index futures and options, interest rate futures, single stock futures, equity options,
commodity futures and options, and currency futures and options. According to the data released by the
Futures Industry Association in December 2016, TAIFEX is the world’s 20th largest exchange by volume
in the first 3 quarters of 2016. Based on FOW Tradedata, the trading volume of TAIFEX’ two flagship
products TAIEX Options and TAIEX Futures rank 3rd and 4th in Asia as of October 2016, respectively.
Taiwan Futures Exchange
