Find
30 Nov 2017

Eurex

Amendments to the Reporting of Excessive System Usage Fee (“ESU Fee”) in the context of MIFiD II

The Excessive System Usage Fee (“ESU Fee”), initially announced in Eurex circular 212/13, came into effect on 1 December 2013. In Eurex circulars 102/17 and 107/17, it was announced that in January 2018 the ESU fee will be amended in the light of the new Eurex liquidity provision framework.

This circular provides information on the new reporting and respective timelines.

A one-month testing phase for the new report amendments of the ESU fee will start on 4 December 2017. On 1 January 2018, the amendments will come into effect.

Market Status

XEUR

The market status window is an indication regarding the current technical availability of the trading system. It indicates whether news board messages regarding current technical issues of the trading system have been published or will be published shortly.

Please find further information about incident handling in the Emergency Playbook published on the Eurex webpage under Support --> Emergencies and safeguards. Detailed information about incident communication, market re-opening procedures and best practices for order and trade reconciliation can be found in the chapters 4.2, 4.3 and 4.5, respectively. Concrete information for the respective incident will be published during the incident via newsboard message. 

We strongly recommend not to take any decisions based on the indications in the market status window but to always check the production news board for comprehensive information on an incident.

An instant update of the Market Status requires an enabled up-to date Java™ version within the browser.