TORONTO, Dec. 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Abaxx Technologies Inc. (CBOE:ABXX)(OTCQX:ABXXF) (“Abaxx” or the “Company”), a financial software and market infrastructure company, indirect majority shareholder of Abaxx Singapore Pte Ltd. (“Abaxx Singapore”), the owner of Abaxx Commodity Exchange and Clearinghouse (individually, “Abaxx Exchange” and “Abaxx Clearing”), and producer of the SmarterMarkets™ Podcast, today announced that trading has commenced in Enwex U.K. Onshore Wind (UWM) futures, the second contract in Abaxx Exchange’s growing suite of weather derivatives.

Following the launch of Enwex German Onshore Wind Futures, the U.K. contract addresses the unique risk profile of one of Europe's most wind-dependent power markets, where Atlantic weather patterns and seasonal variability create substantial generation volatility. The launch creates the first exchange-listed benchmark for managing U.K. wind-generation variability through a financially settled futures contract indexed to the country's installed capacity.

The contract is a pound sterling-denominated, financially-settled product indexed to Enwex Wind U.K., a forecast-based index that translates wind speed at 100m into standardized generation utilization rates, expressed in £/MWh.

"As wind capacity grows globally, markets need regional benchmarks that reflect local weather patterns," said Nancy Seah, CEO of Abaxx Exchange. "We're introducing smarter weather markets with exchange-traded instruments designed for the specific dynamics that drive generation risk in each region.”

"The U.K. launch demonstrates how the Enwex methodology for standardizing weather is scalable across markets," said Robin Girmes, Founder and CEO of Enwex. "It creates an opportunity to transfer volumetric risk from renewable generation into broadly accepted, exchange-traded products that the market can price and manage."

“It’s encouraging to see Abaxx follow its recent German Wind launch with a U.K. Wind product,” added Tim Boyce, Head of Weather Derivatives, EMEA at TP ICAP. “This move is another positive step towards increasing market accessibility across a multitude of industries and underpins Abaxx’s long term commitment to the further development of weather markets.”

Abaxx’s Enwex U.K. Onshore Wind (UWM) futures are available for trading from 1000 to 2400 SGT (14 hours), Monday to Friday, except for Singapore public holidays. View contract details, connected clearing and broker firms, and request market access at abaxx.exchange/resources/start-trading.

About Abaxx Technologies
Abaxx Technologies is building Smarter Markets: markets empowered by better tools, better benchmarks, and better technology to drive market-based solutions to the biggest challenges we face as a society, including the energy transition.

In addition to developing and deploying the next generation of digital market infrastructure that reconciles law, identity, and technology to enable real-time collateral mobility, Abaxx is the majority shareholder of Abaxx Singapore Pte. Ltd., the owner of Abaxx Exchange and Abaxx Clearing, and the parent company of wholly owned subsidiaries Abaxx Spot Pte. Ltd. and Adaptive Infrastructure.

Abaxx Exchange delivers the market infrastructure critical to the shift toward an electrified, low-carbon economy through centrally-cleared, physically-deliverable futures contracts in LNG, carbon, battery materials, and precious metals, meeting the commercial needs of today’s commodity markets and establishing the next generation of global benchmarks.

Abaxx Spot modernizes physical gold trading through a physically-backed gold pool in Singapore. As the first instance of a co-located spot and futures market for gold, Abaxx Spot enables secure electronic transactions, efficient OTC transfers, and is designed to support physical delivery for Abaxx Exchange’s physically-deliverable gold futures contract, providing integrated infrastructure to deliver smarter gold markets.

Adaptive Infrastructure closes critical gaps in post-trade infrastructure by providing a unified custodial foundation across environmental markets and digital title assets. Incorporated in Barbados and regulated by the Financial Services Commission of Barbados, the company delivers institutional-grade custody, settlement, and transfer agency services designed to reduce risk and improve reliability across asset classes.

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