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The Management Board of Eurex Deutschland and the Executive Board of Eurex Zürich AG decided to continue the Market-Making scheme in options on EURO STOXX®and STOXX® Europe 600 sector indexes with slight modifications from 1 September 2014 until 31 August 2015.
The modifications compared to the current scheme relate to revenue sharing, whereas Market-Making rebates and quote obligations remain unchanged.
The Management Board of Eurex Deutschland and the Executive Board of Eurex Zürich AG also decided to reduce the minimum price change (tick size) for options on the EURO STOXX®Banks Index and the STOXX® Europe 600 Banks Index (including Weekly Options on the EURO STOXX®Banks Index) from 0.1 index points to 0.05 index points with effect from 22 September 2014. Accordingly, as of this date, the tick value will be EUR 2.50 for aforementioned options.
The new product parameters will be available in the Eurex simulation environment from 3 September 2014.
The updated sections of the Contact Specifications for Futures Contracts and Options Contracts at Eurex Deutschland and Eurex Zürich can be found in attachment 1.
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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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