Profile: Taifex - Taifex eyes a golden future

The Taiwan Futures Exchange will launch gold futures contracts at the end of March and is planning other initiatives to boost foreign participation. Exchange president Foo-shiung Ho talks to Jill Wong

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Trading volume on the Taiwan Futures Exchange (Taifex) has grown massively since its establishment in 1997. In 2005, trading volume surged to 92.7 million contracts for the year as a whole, up from 59.2 million contracts in 2004 and less than 300,000 contracts in 1998. According to data for January-October 2005 from the Futures Industry Association (FIA), Taifex was the world's 18th biggest derivatives exchange in that period - leaping from 57th in 1998 - and the fourth largest in

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