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Dec 22, 2016

Eurex Clearing

EurexOTC Clear New Service: Clearing of OTC FX Swaps, OTC FX Spots and OTC FX Forwards; Introduction of EurexOTC Clear Release 7.1

With this circular, Eurex Clearing would like to inform all market participants that it is cooperating with 360T. With this cooperation EurexOTC Clear Service plans to introduce the clearing OTC FX Swaps, OTC FX Spots and OTC FX Forwards (henceforth referred to as “OTC FX”) in currency pairs EUR/USD and GBP/USD.  

Eurex Clearing plans to attain technical production readiness, as part of EurexOTC Clear Release 7.1, on
15 May 2017, i.e. technical connectivity to the production environment will be available at that point.

The introduction of OTC FX products in production is subject to and will follow regulatory approval.

With EurexOTC Clear Release 7.1, Eurex Clearing further plans service enhancements for Interest Rate Swaps such as de-couple interdependencies between netting levels and OTC report enhancements. Those enhancements will be delivered in production on 15 May 2017 as well and in simulation on 5 April 2017.