KIEV, April 12 – The Kiev-based PFTS stock exchange plans to launch trading on the futures and options market in the second half of 2010, Iryna Zaria, the exchange's president said at a press conference devoted to the results of the stock market and PFTS operation in Q1.

She said that the launch of the derivatives market primarily depends on market liquidity – the availability of assets that would fuel the interest in the instrument.