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Mar 12, 2010

Eurex

Volatility Futures: Introduction of Market-Making Scheme on Mini Future on VSTOXX®

The Management Boards of the Eurex Exchanges and the Executive Board of Eurex Clearing AG decided to introduce a Market-Making scheme for volatility futures (product code: FVS) including a 100 percent transaction fee refund.

The program will run from April 1, 2010 to December 31, 2011.

All Trading Members may act as Designated Market Makers. Interested members are required to fill in the attached application form and fax it to Alexey Weizmann.

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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. 

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