NSE launches new brand identity for NIFTY Indices

National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE), India’s leading exchange today announced the launch of a new brand identity for NIFTY Indices

Mumbai, May 28, 2019: The new brand logo emphasizes on the letter ‘N’ and an upward rising graph, signifying growth and momentum, capturing the new direction for the Indian capital markets.

NIFTY Indices over the years have successfully helped investors gauge the pulse of the Indian capital market. They have lived up to their core purpose of providing fair representation of the Indian capital market focusing on portfolio diversification, liquidity and replicability. The new brand reinforces these attributes of NIFTY Indices and helps NIFTY Indices position themselves as the primary currency of the Indian capital markets. NIFTY Indices include 72 equity indices (including Broad based, Sectoral, Thematic and Strategy) and 90 Fixed Income indices (including G-Sec, SDL, Corporate Bond, Money Market and Fixed Income Aggregates).

Vikram Limaye, MD & CEO, NSE

These indices are used for a variety of purposes such as benchmarking of mutual fund performances and launch of index based derivatives, ETFs and index funds. Globally, there are 58 ETFs (49 in India and 9 in International markets) tracking NIFTY Indices. These ETFs are listed on 17 exchanges across 15 countries. As of March 2019, ~78% of the Indian ETF AUM is linked to NIFTY Indices. The NIFTY 50 is the most traded index derivative contract in India. Globally, NIFTY 50 index options were ranked 3rd and NIFTY Bank index options were ranked 1st in terms of number of contracts traded in 2018 (Source: WFE IOMA 2018 Derivatives Report).

Mr. Vikram Limaye, MD & CEO, NSE, said, “NSE, over the years, has evolved as the driving force of capital markets in India. NIFTY Indices, more particularly the NIFTY 50 index, has become synonymouswith equity markets and reflected the growth story of Indian equity markets. The new logo for NIFTY will further strengthen its identity as the leader in the index space. We will continue to develop innovative indices for various investment products that are useful to retail as well as institutional investors.”

About National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE):

 National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. (NSE) is the leading stock exchange in India and the second largest in the world by nos. of trades in equity shares from January to December 2018, according to World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) report. NSE was the first exchange in India to implement electronic or screen-based trading. It began operations in 1994 and is ranked as the largest stock exchange in India in terms of total and average daily turnover for equity shares every year since 1995, based on SEBI data.

NSE has a fully-integrated business model comprising exchange listings, trading services, clearing and settlement services, indices, market data feeds, technology solutions and financial education offerings. NSE also oversees compliance by trading and clearing members with the rules and regulations of the exchange. NSE is a pioneer in technology and ensures the reliability and performance of its systems through a culture of innovation and investment in technology. NSE believes that the scale and breadth of its products and services, sustained leadership positions across multiple asset classes in India and globally enable it to be highly reactive to market demands and changes and deliver innovation in both trading and non-trading businesses to provide high-quality data and services to market participants and clients.

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