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Jan 05, 2017

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EURO STOXX 50® Index Dividend Futures: Tradability for U.S. Participants

As of 9 January 2017, Eurex Participants and investors domiciled in the U.S. will have the following additional product available for trading:

  • EURO STOXX 50® Index Dividend Futures (FEXD)

Eurex Deutschland submitted a written request to the Division of Market Oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to offer EURO STOXX 50® Index Dividend Futures in the U.S., and the contract has successfully passed through the CFTC notification period.

Pursuant to Eurex Deutschland’s registration with the CFTC as a foreign board of trade, the EURO STOXX 50® Index Dividend Futures can be offered to U.S. persons via Eurex terminals with direct access in the U.S. or sold to these persons.

The respective new Product Assignment Group is XACFQE (before: XNCFQE).

For traders currently authorized to trade the product FEXD, the new Product Assignment Group must be assigned. This is the case for all Trading Authorizations and Transaction Size Limits.

Please note that despite the assignment of the product FEXD to the new Product Assignment Group, the Multicast addresses for data distribution will remain unchanged. Port numbers, however, will change as follows:

  • Snapshot messages: Change from 59032 to 59000
  • Incremental messages: Change from 59033 to 59001

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.

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