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Sep 27, 2012

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European Whey Powder Index Futures contracts: Tradability by U.S. participants

Effective 28 September 2012, Eurex participants and investors domiciled in the U.S. will have access to trading of another product: European Whey Powder Index Futures contracts.

On 18 September 2012,the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight accepted Eurex’s notification (submitted on 14 September 2012) of this new product and informed Eurex that it did not have any objection to Eurex offering or selling the European Whey Powder Index Futures contract to persons in the U.S. through Eurex’s direct access terminals located in the U.S.

The respective new product assignment groups are XACHOE (Commod. EUR - cash – US appr.).

Please note: As a result of the new product assignment groups, although the multicast addresses for dissemination of market data will remain unchanged, the respective port numbers will change as follows:

Snapshot Messages:         50033 to 50001

Incremental Messages:     50032 to 50000

For any questions you may have, please contact Steven Stasys, Jennifer Goldson or Sascha Siegel via the above-mentioned contact details.

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