STOXX Limited, the market-moving provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today announced that it has won the 2015 European Structured Products & Derivatives Awards created by Structured Retail Products (SRP), under category Best Index Provider for Derivatives. The award was presented at a ceremony on Feb. 5, 2015 in London.
“This award signifies a great achievement for our indices as both customers and independent judges decided the winner,” said Hartmut Graf, chief executive officer, STOXX Limited. “Structured products based on our indices have risen sharply over the past decade.”
Richard Jory, global head of content at SRP in London, said: “The index category was an extremely competitive award, and we congratulate STOXX for its success in the SRP Europe Awards 2015.” SRP, founded in 2003, is a division of Euromoney Global Ltd., and is a leading online resource for the global structured products community, with coverage of retail, institutional and private banking markets.
The number of structured products based on STOXX indices rose to 63,870 in 2014, up 14.7% from 55,678 in 2013. The number of structured products based on STOXX, DAX and SMI Indices rose 19.6% to 412,011 in 2014, from 344,383 in 2013. STOXX is the marketing agent for the indices of Deutsche Börse AG and SIX, as of July, 2010.
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