Singapore's SGX Nifty began trading as Gift Nifty from Gujarat's GIFT City here on Monday, with USD 9.4 billion open interest transferred to the new entity and USD 1.12 billion volume achieved in the first session of day-one trading.
July 3 marked the full-scale transition of SGX Nifty to Gift Nifty, providing an opportunity for international investors to access Nifty products through NSE IX at GIFT City. A bell-ringing ceremony was organised at the GIFT City to mark the occasion as USD 9.4 billion of open interest was transferred from SGX Nifty to Gift Nifty.
"Earlier some portion of our trading had gone offshore, and now it is coming onshore in a different jurisdiction, which is GIFT International Financial Services Centre (GIFT IFSC). It is a great day and gives us a tremendous feeling of how ISFC will operate in the future," MD and CEO of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) Ashish Chauhan said.
"It marks a tectonic shift and we are in some sense achieving what we call onshoring th
