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Apr 03, 2017

Eurex Bonds

Eurex Bonds RFQ: Go-live and vendor gateway availability

Eurex Bonds is introducing the additional trading protocol RFQ on 3 April 2017. For platform access, Eurex Bonds provides a new user friendly webtrading GUI as well as a FIX connectivity for integration in vendor applications. Furthermore, the software vendor ICUBIC now offers the production version without Axes.

The timelines for the vendor gateways from ION and ICUBIC are the following:

ICUBIC:

  • 31 March 2017: Final production version without Axes
  • 30 April 2017: Final production version with Axes

ION:

  • 3 April 2017: Beta version with limited functionality
  • 7 April 2017: Production version

We strongly recommend all Eurex Bonds participants to start testing as soon as possible in order to ensure a smooth implementation. The go-live is on 3 April 2017.

Market Status ⓘ

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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.

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