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May 19, 2017

Eurex

Equity options: Change of the standard contract sizes

Effective 1 June 2017, the Management Board of Eurex Deutschland and the Executive Board of Eurex Zürich AG took the decision to change the standard contract sizes for equity options according to the attachment. Series with open positions will be continued with the old contract size and the version number 1. New series with the new contract size will be introduced with the version number 0.

The Market-Making obligations will not be adapted.

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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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