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30 Jan 2024

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Money Market Derivatives: Amendment to the trading hours and adjustment of the Liquidity Provider schemes for EURIBOR and Euro STR Futures

Eurex Circular 012/24 Money Market Derivatives: Amendment to the trading hours and adjustment of the Liquidity Provider schemes for EURIBOR and Euro STR Futures

1.    Introduction

The Management Board of Eurex Deutschland took the following decision with effect from 5 February 2024:

  • Amendment of the Annex to the Contract Specifications for Futures Contracts and Options Contracts at Eurex Deutschland, pursuant to Attachment 1

The Executive Boards of Eurex Frankfurt AG and Eurex Clearing AG took the following decisions with effect from 1 March 2024:

  • The Product Specific Supplement (PSS) "Fixed Income 17 - STIR Futures“ will be amended as shown in Attachment 2. 

2.    Required action

Liquidity Providers should adapt their quotation behavior accordingly.

3.    Details

A.    Trading hours extension for Euro-denominated Money Market Index Futures Contracts

In order to offer Trading Participants more opportunities, the trading hours in the Euro-denominated Money Market Index Futures Contracts “Three-Month Euribor Futures (Product ID: FEU3)” and “Three-Month Euro STR Futures (Product ID: FST3)” will be extended as outlined in Attachment 1, with effect from 5 February 2024

The pre-trading phase will then be available from 07:00 CET. Afterwards, the products will start with an opening auction at 07:20 CET and commence with continuous trading at 07:30 CET until 22:00 CET. The Post Trade Phase period will end at 22:10 CET. 

The entry of off-book trades via the TES functionality is available to Trading Participants from 07:30 CET - 22:00 CET. 

B.    Amendments to the PSS “Fixed Income 17 - STIR Futures”

The Liquidity Provider Scheme for Euro-denominated Money Market Index Futures was introduced with the launch of the STIR partnership program on 1 November 2023 and strengthened the liquidity in the order book. To further support the Liquidity Providers, Eurex Frankfurt AG has decided to amend the PSS “Fixed Income 17 – STIR Futures” effective as of 1 March 2024 as shown in Attachment 2. 

For more immediate improvement to the liquidity picture, Eurex Frankfurt AG has decided to introduce the following changes as of 1 February 2024:

  • Reducing the minimum coverage time for all Tier 1 Schemes in PSS “Fixed Income 17 – STIR Futures” from 60 percent to 40 percent
  • Increase the monetary incentives amount for the fulfillment of the Tier 1 Outright quoting obligation for the Top 7 Liquidity Provider within the Top 10 Liquidity Provider obligation to EUR 20,000 in Three-Month Euribor Futures and Three-Month Euro STR Futures

The PSS documents will be amended with effect from 1 March 2024, as shown in Attachment 2. 

The amendments shall be deemed approved unless objected to Eurex Frankfurt AG and Eurex Clearing AG within a period of two weeks after notification of this circular pursuant to Number 4 (2) of the Liquidity Provider Agreement.

The current versions of the PSS documents are also available in PDF format on the Eurex website www.eurex.com under the following path:

Trade > Market-Making and Liquidity provisioning

Attachments:

  1. Amendments to the Annexes to the Contract Specifications for Futures Contracts and Options Contracts at Eurex Deutschland
  2. Amended PSS “Fixed Income 17 – STIR Futures”


Further information

Recipients:

All Trading Participants of Eurex Deutschland and Vendors

Target groups:

Front Office/Trading, Middle + Backoffice, IT/System Administration, Auditing/Security Coordination

Contact:

Market Development & Pricing, eurex.pricing@eurex.com

Web:

Market-Making and Liquidity provisioning

Authorized by:

Michael Peters


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