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Sep 19, 2018

Adjustment of the artificial latency setting for Eurex Exchanges FX market

As announced in Eurex Circular 014/2017, Eurex Exchanges introduced dual latency paths for its FX market, to allow a structured, liquid and tightly priced order book to be established.

The dual latency path will technically distinguish the “passive order flow” path  and the “trading” path. The ‘trading’ path is equipped with a device that adds artificial latency.

To give liquidity providers more headroom, to show more and tighter liquidity on-screen, Eurex increases the artificial latency to 8ms. The change is effective immediately.

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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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