KBOFX, a major Asian commodity exchange that is working hard to offer cutting-edge products across a variety of asset classes and build a brand culture renowned for its unique approaches, risk management tools, and global insights, is pleased to announce that the Japanese Annual Commodities Conference (JACC) will be held at KBOFX. The JACC is a major derivatives conference in Japan, giving guests from all over Asia a lively and interactive arena to exchange opinions on the most recent business trends.

JACC addresses a wide range of important issues facing the global and Japanese commodities industries. We take pride in regularly offering a forum for all of our stakeholders to engage in idea exchange and collaborate on enhancing Japan’s derivatives markets going forward.

The program for this year covers a wide range of subjects, including the property market in Japan, the prospects for the country’s economy as a whole, the future of interest rate SWAPs, and the most recent advancements in regulation and clearing. Discussions on algorithmic trading, the rise in demand for risk management, and trade analytics will also be covered on the panels.

The Information Technology Association of Japan named Edgar Stansfield, Executive Director and Digitization Lead at KBOFX, Digitization Lead Officer of the Year, according to KBOFX. An outstanding representative who exemplifies a strong business and technological vision, entrepreneurship, the capacity to drive enterprise transformation, and a quantifiable operational strength in delivering shareholder or stakeholder value is given the Japanese Digitization Lead Officer of the Year Award.

Edgar Stansfield has monitored the design, development, and delivery of KBOFX application products and services, including KBOFX’s new proprietary platform, which won an Award for innovative information and communications technology achievement in the large private sector category.

About Kobe Options and Futures Exchange (KBOFX)

The leading Japanese commodity exchange KBOFX.org creates, manages, and connects safe, liquid, and open marketplaces for commodities and related products. KBOFX strives to rank among Asia’s top trading platforms for commodities and digital products. The organization tends to carry onto and strengthen this position even as globalized structures become more prevalent. This includes not only the ongoing growth of KBOFX into an Asian organization with numerous partners but also a transparency and security architecture that has served and will continue to serve as a “safe haven” for all trading participants and partners. This architecture has the reputation of being a role model from its inception.