{"id":225826,"date":"2026-03-03T00:46:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egyptian-exchange-to-launch-futures-market-on-march-1\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T00:46:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:46:58","slug":"egyptian-exchange-to-launch-futures-market-on-march-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egyptian-exchange-to-launch-futures-market-on-march-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian Exchange to Launch Futures Market On March 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The Egyptian Exchange will launch its long-awaited futures market on March 1, 2026, beginning with contracts linked to the EGX30 index.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The first phase will introduce three-month and six-month futures contracts, marking a significant step in expanding Egypt&#8217;s capital market infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">EGX Chairman Islam Azzam said the launch follows completion of the regulatory licensing process by the Financial Regulatory Authority and approval of trading and settlement rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" \/a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603020021.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Egyptian Exchange will launch its long-awaited futures market on March 1, 2026, beginning with contracts linked to the EGX30 index. The first phase will introduce three-month and six-month futures contracts, marking a significant step in expanding Egypt&#8217;s capital market infrastructure. EGX Chairman Islam Azzam said the launch follows completion of the regulatory licensing process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":225827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,415,6639,9607,25018,5741,9677,4356,257,254],"class_list":["post-225826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptian","tag-exchange","tag-futures","tag-launch","tag-march","tag-market","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}