Highly liquid FX Futures
The Korean Won denominated USD futures on KRX are ranked as one of the top 10 foreign exchange futures and options contracts in 2020 (Statistics by Futures Industry Association) with 110 million traded contracts in 2020 and an open interest of more than 860,000 in December 2020.
Manage your Korean exposure after KRX closing hours
Following strong demand from our market participants, KRX and Eurex continued their product cooperation ("Eurex/ KRX Link") by listing the Eurex Daily USD/KRW Futures on US Dollar Futures of the Korea Exchange ("Daily USD/KRW Futures") at Eurex starting 26 July 2021.
This product is a fully fungible contract with the corresponding KRX US Dollar Futures contract. Market participants can continue to trade the Daily USD/KRW Futures at Eurex during the European and core U.S. hours from 18:00 KST or 10:00 CET.
More trading opportunities for the U.S. market participants
The Daily USD/KRW Futures is a CFTC approved product, allowing U.S. market participants trading access during the U.S. time zones.