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Nasdaq Launches U.S. Treasury Futures Product


NEW YORK, July 02, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced it will launch U.S. DV01 Treasury Futures, a new interest rate risk product trading on the Nasdaq Futures Exchange (NFX).  U.S. DV01 Treasury Futures, or "the dollar value of one basis point," will allow clients to hedge against the price sensitivity of a portfolio of cash market U.S. Treasuries across the yield curve from 2-year to 30-year maturities.  The new product will be available for trading on Thursday, July 19, 2018, pending regulatory approval.

"Combined with our experience in the U.S. Treasury cash markets on Nasdaq Fixed Income (NFI), the launch of U.S. DV01 Treasury Futures moves us closer to our goal of helping our clients gain greater certainty of their U.S. Treasury portfolio interest rate risk," said Ted Bragg, Head of NFI at Nasdaq. "The U.S. Treasury market needs additional instruments to help manage interest rate risk, and U.S. DV01 Futures provides increased optionality and alternatives in the fast growing interest rate futures market." 

"Our NFX platform launched three years ago as an all-commodities exchange to expand on our existing global commodities business and provide more choice for clients,"  added Tom Wittman, Executive Vice President and Head of Market Services at Nasdaq. "Based on the growth of NFX and client feedback, we feel the next step is to expand into financial futures and work closely with the futures marketplace to build off the strength of our technology."

As the deepest and most liquid government securities market in the world, the U.S. Treasury market is highly reliant on and influenced by an array of economic factors.  Futures market participants will benefit from U.S. DV01 Treasury Futures through the following:

NFI is the second largest dealer-to-dealer institutional trading venue for U.S. Treasury securities. The six On-The-Run U.S. Treasury securities are among the highest in volume and the most liquid financial instruments in the world.  The U.S. Treasuries cash marketplace is extremely efficient - there are over a dozen multi-billion dollar principal trading firms whose core strategy is to transfer liquidity between U.S. Treasury trading venues at ultra-high speeds.  In 2018, The Nasdaq Fixed Income trading platform will move to Nasdaq's state-of-the-art matching engine, business functionality and protocol technologies ? the Nasdaq Financial Framework.   

Since 2013, Nasdaq has been one of the leading electronic trading platforms for cash U.S. Treasury securities, providing real-time, intraday, end-of-day, historical and indicative data formats for U.S. Treasury data. Treasury securities include Treasury bonds (T-bonds), Treasury notes (T-notes) and Treasury bills (T-bills) and U.S. Treasury Floating Rate Notes.

To learn more about Nasdaq's DV01 Treasury Futures, please visit here: http://business.nasdaq.com/media/US-DV01-Treasury-Futures_tcm5044-63486.pdf

About Nasdaq: 
Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) is a leading global provider of trading, clearing, exchange technology, listing, information and public company services. Through its diverse portfolio of solutions, Nasdaq enables customers to plan, optimize and execute their business vision with confidence, using proven technologies that provide transparency and insight for navigating today's global capital markets. As the creator of the world's first electronic stock market, its technology powers more than 90 marketplaces in 50 countries, and 1 in 10 of the world's securities transactions. Nasdaq is home to approximately 3,900 total listings with a market value of approximately $13 trillion. To learn more, visit: http://business.nasdaq.com

Nasdaq Media Contact:
Joseph Christinat
(646) 441-5121
(646) 284-5920
[email protected]


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