Uruguay Futures Exchange

The Uruguay Futures Exchange (UFEX) is a Uruguayan futures and options exchange that presents itself as the country's first exchange of its kind. It provides price-hedging and investment tools with real-time trading, contributing to price formation and the growth of the economy. Its market offering spans futures and options on the US dollar (with the Uruguayan peso as the trading currency), agricultural commodity futures (soybean and corn, as well as Chicago Mercantile Exchange soybean, corn and 'mini' wheat contracts in dollars, and Matba Rofex feeder cattle), precious metals and energy futures (COMEX gold and WTI crude oil), and futures on individual stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), US-listed stock indices and ADRs authorized for public offering in that jurisdiction. It also offers securities REPO transactions involving the simultaneous sale and purchase of public securities issued by the national government and the central bank. UFEX's futures and options are aimed at brokerage firms and specialized investors — institutional financial intermediaries, pension funds and financial services companies — that are authorized by the Superintendency of Financial Services of the Central Bank of Uruguay and/or registered in the Registry of Securities Intermediaries. The exchange highlights several benefits of its contracts across markets: risk management, diverse price-hedging strategies, price discovery, forward reference values, an alternative for investment portfolios, and price arbitrage opportunities. The exchange operates a real-time trading environment and publishes market statistics and a price viewer, along with an AnywherePortfolio tool. Its dollar-denominated contracts are positioned as ideal for managing the financial impact of exchange-rate movements in the context of a heavily dollarized economy. UFEX is based in Uruguay and serves the domestic market.

The Uruguay Futures Exchange (UFEX) presents itself as the first futures and options exchange in Uruguay. It was established to provide price-hedging and investment tools with real-time trading, contributing to price formation and the growth of the economy. The exchange operates in a heavily dollarized economy, which shapes its product design: its dollar futures and options use the US dollar as the underlying asset and the Uruguayan peso as the trading currency, positioned as ideal for managing the financial impact of exchange-rate movements. Beyond currency contracts, UFEX has built out a multi-asset offering that includes agricultural commodity futures (soybean and corn, plus Chicago Mercantile Exchange soybean, corn and 'mini' wheat contracts in dollars, and Matba Rofex feeder cattle), precious metals and energy futures (COMEX gold and WTI crude oil), and futures on individual stocks, ETFs, US-listed stock indices and ADRs authorized for public offering in that jurisdiction. It also offers securities REPO transactions involving the simultaneous sale and purchase of public securities issued by the national government and the central bank. Access to the market is restricted to brokerage firms and specialized investors — institutional financial intermediaries, pension funds and financial services companies — authorized by the Superintendency of Financial Services of the Central Bank of Uruguay and/or registered in the Registry of Securities Intermediaries. The exchange provides market statistics, a price viewer and an AnywherePortfolio tool to support its participants.

Uruguay's first futures and options exchange, providing price-hedging and investment tools with real-time trading for authorized brokers and specialized investors.

• Futures and options on the US dollar

  Contracts with the US dollar as underlying asset and the Uruguayan peso as trading currency, ideal for managing the financial impact of exchange-rate movements in a heavily dollarized economy.

• Agricultural commodity futures

  Soybean and corn futures, plus Chicago Mercantile Exchange soybean, corn and 'mini' wheat contracts in dollars, and Matba Rofex feeder cattle.

• Precious metals and energy futures

  COMEX gold and WTI crude oil futures.

• Single-stock, ETF, index and ADR futures

  Futures on individual stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), US-listed stock indices and ADRs authorized for public offering in that jurisdiction.

• Securities REPO

  Simultaneous sale and purchase of public securities issued by the national government and the central bank.

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