Research and development

Development of new trading platforms and expansion of the portfolio of investment instruments available on WSE markets are the key elements of the Group’s strategy. Such activities will bring long-term advantages in the form of new groups of investors and new sources of revenues. The year 2013 witnessed a few important events for the development of the Group and the capital market in Poland:

  • 21 January – Treasury securities denominated in EUR were introduced to trading on TBSP;
  • 18 February – WSE added 56 new structured products to its offer including turbo certificates, factor certificates and warrants offering investment in commodities, exchange indices and Polish stocks;
  • 2 April – WSE opened a CO2 emission allowances auction platform;
  • 15 April – the new trading system, Universal Trading Platform (UTP) became available;
  • 17 May – Twin Win structured certificates were introduced to trading on WSE for the first time;
  • 23 May – WSE opened GPWtr@der, a demo learning platform for investments in WIG20 and mWIG40 futures, 22 single-stock futures, and fx futures;
  • 12 June – TURBO certificates issued by ING Bank N.V. were introduced into trading with underlying including stock exchange indices, commodities and currencies, as well as stocks listed on WSE and other global exchanges, such as Nokia, Apple and Google;
  • 24 June – WSE introduced modifications to NewConnect indices: amendment of the NCIndex methodology, termination of NCX Life Science, introduction of NCIndex30;
  • 26 July – Reverse Convertible Notes on stocks of PKO BP and KGHM were newly listed on WSE;
  • 2 September – WSE provided Exchange Members, their clients and data vendors with of the UTP colocation and High Performance Access (HPA) services;
  • 23 September – the Exchange started the publication of new indices WIG30 and WIG30TR;
  • 23 September – WSE introduced WIG20 futures contracts with a PLN 20 multiplier into trading;
  • 15 October – WSEInfoEngine S.A. opened InfoEngineOTC, an OTC commodity trading platform;
  • 18 October – futures contracts on WIBOR reference rates and futures contracts on Treasury bonds, were introduced into trading.