MCX wins ‘Best Commodity Exchange’ Award

Mumbai, July 26, 2016: Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (MCX), India’s No. 1 commodity exchange, has been honoured with the Best Commodity Exchange Award at the Bullion Federation Global Convention organized by the Bullion Federation in Agra during 21st-24th July 2016. The Bullion Federation is a national level apex body representing the bullion industry to further the cause of bullion trade and its members. The conference was attended by over 400 delegates, including refiners, bullion importers, bullion dealers, banks, foreign banks, logistics companies, commodity exchanges, and media and metal research houses among others.

The award recognizes MCX’s commitment towards developing a vibrant commodity futures market in India by providing a robust and efficient platform for price discovery and risk management across a diverse range of precious metal, energy, base metal and agri products.

On receiving the award, Mr. Shivanshu Mehta, Vice President- Bullion, MCX, said, “MCX is honoured to earn this prestigious recognition from the Bullion Federation which is an endorsement of trust of our industry peers. This award reflects not only the remarkable growth MCX has witnessed during the last decade, but also the innovative products, and a slew of strategic initiatives that the exchange introduced to support the hedging needs of commodity stakeholders across the country. “

“The exchange remains committed to the risk management requirements of the entire bullion fraternity. With their trust and support, our successful gold and silver futures contracts have displayed good volumes, turnover, open Interest (OI), liquidity and high hedging efficiency. For the Q1 FY 17, bullion contracts clocked an average daily turnover of Rs. 9,945 crore, with daily volumes of Gold at 21 metric tonnes (MT) and Silver at 929 MT for the period. The OI/Volume ratio reflected healthy hedgers’ participation. With the likely introduction of new derivative products, MCX will continue to strengthen its product offering to the bullion value-chain”, Mr. Mehta added.

Reinforcing their faith in MCX, the bullion traders and industry stakeholders present during the event expressed their delight on MCX receiving this well-earned honour. They jointly stated that “MCX’s unflinching passion for creating an efficient trading platform for commodity stakeholders cannot be overemphasized.”

During the policy round-table at the event with the Hon’ble. Union Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Shri. Arjun Ram Meghwal, the bullion industry brought all contemporary issues to the fore. There were elaborate discussions on the Commodity Transaction Tax (CTT) that has adversely affected the cost of hedging bullion price exposure in India, thereby pushing hedgers to overseas exchanges; and has also led to the rise in dabba trading. Participation of banks in domestic commodity exchanges was also touched upon.