www.eurexasia.com
Eurex in Asia:
Diversity,
flexibility and
100 percent
commitment.
Partner with one
of the world’s
leading derivatives
exchanges
Eurex Group is comprised of Eurex Exchange,
Eurex Clearing, Eurex Repo, Eurex Bonds,
the International Securities Exchange (ISE)
and the European Energy Exchange (EEX).
Each of our six businesses is a leader and
innovator in their own area, turning ideas
into opportunities – in trading, clearing,
technology and risk management.
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Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) on 15 May 2014 as a first step in this strategic partnership between Eurex and TAIFEX.
Deutsche Börse and Eurex operate 14 access points in major international financial centers around the world, offering Eurex member firms direct, high-speed and cost-effective network access to Eurex’s highly liquid trading platform. Our access points in Hong Kong and Singapore enable our participants to obtain connections of up to 80 Mbit/s. In Singapore, Eurex and the Singapore Exchange (SGX) offer their customers market access via a data center linkage. With the link, customers of each exchange can more easily and cost-effectively access both markets by connecting their trading systems to either the SGX or Eurex and Deutsche Börse co-location data centers.
Eurex Exchange operates, with a volume of
1.5 billion contracts traded in 2013, one of
the leading derivatives markets in the world.
With more than 1,900 products Eurex covers
the traditional as well as alternative asset
classes and serves around 400 members and
more than 7,600 traders in 35 countries
worldwide. Our trading platform is based
on an innovative IT infrastructure, providing
clients with access to a global liquidity
network. Building on our track record as
the first-mover in electronic trading, Eurex
Exchange transforms the way its customers
trade. T7, our new trading architecture, is
improving our industry-leading performance
while offering clients more flexibility
and efficiency.
Our Futures and Options on EUR-dominated government bonds and derivatives on the bench-mark indexes DAX®and EURO STOXX®are
among the most heavily traded equity and interest rate derivatives in the world.
In Asia we are working in partnership with local Asian exchanges to expand the range of Asian derivatives available at Eurex Exchange. Our sucess-ful cooperation with the Korea Exchange (KRX) allows investors to continue to trade KOSPI 200 Options at Eurex after close of the Korean market. More than 90,000 KOSPI 200 Options have been traded on a daily average on Eurex in 2014 so far. The total volume of the Eurex KOSPI product has increased by more than 28% from January 2013 to December 2013. Similar to the Eurex/KRX cooperation, Eurex has introduced night trading on TAIEX Futures and Options with the Taiwan
Bund, Bobl, Schatz – EUR-denominated
German Government Bond Futures
and Options
At Eurex you can trade the European yield curve with the world’s most heavily traded fixed income derivatives. An average daily volume of 1.6 million contracts were traded in 2014. Our Euro-Schatz, Euro-Bobl and Euro-Bund contracts allow you to manage your interest rate risk and serve as a stan-dard benchmark when comparing and evaluating interest rates in Europe.
Eurex KOSPI Options
The Eurex/KRX Link is giving Eurex Members direct access to KOSPI 200 Options, one of the most heavily traded options contract in the world with constituents like Samsung, Hyundai and Korean Air. This product cooperation between KRX and Eurex enables market participants to trade KOSPI 200 options during core European and North American trading hours. Since its launch on 30 August 2010, the Eurex KOSPI Product has steadily increased the notional value of its daily average volume and achieved an ADV of more than 90,000 contracts in 2014. Eurex provides an extensive range of products,
including some of the world’s most heavily traded derivative contracts. Our aim is simple – to make trading, hedging and risk management easier for anyone with exposure to the financial markets.
EURO STOXX 50
®– The European
Benchmark Index
The EURO STOXX 50®Index is composed of
large cap companies from twelve Eurozone countries. With an average daily trading volume of 1.9 million contracts in 2014 the Futures and Options on EURO STOXX 50®are the most
heavily traded products at Eurex Exchange. Constituents include renowned companies such as Siemens, LVMH and Unilever.
DAX
®– The German Benchmark Index
DAX®is Deutsche Börse’s blue chip index for
the German stock market – one of the most efficient stock markets in Europe. The DAX®is
an attractive underlying for derivatives. It com-prises the 30 largest and most actively traded German companies, for example Daimler, BMW, Volkswagen, Allianz and Lufthansa.
Providing access
to global
bench-mark products
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MSCI Products
Eurex offers a family of MSCI benchmark products which covers developed, emerging and frontier markets. This includes MSCI World, MSCI Europe, MSCI Emerging Markets, MSCI Emerging Market Asia, MSCI Frontier Markets, MSCI AC Asia Pacific ex Japan, MSCI Japan, MSCI India and MSCI Thailand. Eurex Exchange offers both, Futures and Options on MSCI indexes.
Market participants need to efficiently move between cash and derivative markets. To meet market demand, Eurex Exchange introduced a new order type, the Trade at Index Close. This order type supports the entry of off-book trades in equity index futures based on the com-bination of the next available index closing price plus basis.
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TAIEX Options and Futures
The Eurex/TAIFEX Link creates an overnight market for TAIEX Options and Futures products and provides existing market participants hedging opportunities for their TAIFEX positions and enables them to react to changes in their portfolio as global markets fluctuate. Daily futures on TAIEX Options and Futures are available on Eurex Exchange since 15 May 2014. More than 63,000 TAIEX contracts have been traded at Eurex Exchange within the first few months. The TAIEX being the benchmark index for Taiwan, consists on blue chips such as Foxconn, HTC, Taiwan Semiconductor etc.
FX Futures and Options
Combining best-practice OTC market conventions with the strength of exchange-traded derivatives our FX Futures and Options, launched on 7 July 2014, are the perfect choice to make the most of one of today’s most dynamic markets.
We have six pairs on four major currencies for you to trade: EUR/USD, EUR/GBP, EUR/CHF, USD/CHF, GBP/CHF and GBP/USD. And you’ll trade FX on best-in class technology with a Euro-pean matching engine.
In the Asian region, financial institutes from Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and UAE can become Eurex exchange members. Investors from other Asian countries can, depending on local financial market regulations, trade Eurex products via international intermediaries.
Being a Eurex trading member means, you have the advantage of not paying any admission or membership fees. Our Membership Incentive makes trading at Eurex even more beneficial. It offers two incentive components designed to reduce trading and connection fees for newly admitted members. The first component consists of a monthly fee waiver of up to EUR 3,000 for trading and connection fee, and the second component offers an additional monthly high-volume transaction fee-waiver of up to EUR 1,500.
Our Trader Development Program incentivizes new traders from Asia who qualify for the program, allowing them to benefit from exchange fee rebates as well as educational support.
Take advantage of our incentive schemes by contacting one of our representatives in Asia. Full details are available on
www.eurexchange.asia > Contacts in Asia
Join the liquidity –
direct membership
at Eurex
Eurex Clearing acts as a central counterparty in a variety of exchange traded and OTC products and is, as such, one of the leading clearing houses in the world. This means risk is mitigated for both contractual partners – whether the contracts are traded on- or off-exchange.
The need for effective risk management has never been as important as today. Asian banking institutions are positioning themselves as Pan-Asian clearing hubs. Eurex Clearing, with its inno-vative risk management solutions and state-of-the-art clearing technologies, intends to contri-bute to market safety and integrity as well in this region.
Based on growing customer interest, Eurex Clearing is continuously aiming at getting the regulatory approvals to be able to offer clearing memberships in several Asian markets. In 2012, Eurex Clearing has already been granted the permission to admit Clearing Members in Singapore.
Together with the Deutsche Börse Group, Eurex is covering the entire value chain from trading to clearing and settlement.
Innovative
clearing concepts
for Asian clients
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With its “Asia Training & Education Initiative” Eurex trains investment professionals of the member firms, staff members of financial institutions as well as young academics to enhance their knowledge and expertise via webinars, seminars, practical lab sessions, and trading competitions. It covers China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, India, Japan, UAE, South Korea, Australia and Malaysia and offers courses on the European markets as well as futures and options trading.
Special emphasis is put on co-operations with edu-cational institutes and associations. This currently includes co-operations with leading universities and associations, e.g. the Singapore Management University (SMU), the National Taiwan University (NTU), the Securities & Futures Institute (SFI) Taiwan, the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), the SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) India, the China Futures Association (CFA), the Chinese National Futures Association (CNFA), the Korea Financial Investment Association (KOFIA), and the Association of Financial and Commodity Traders Singapore (AFACT). So far, more than 13,000 participants have taken part in these trainings.
Introducing the
European markets
to Asian clients
Further information
Our “European Market Outlook“ newsletter is available in English and Chinese and focuses on the European financial markets and provides you with a preview of the day ahead on the basis of in-depth facts and figures.
Register to our newsletters at
www.eurexchange.asia > Market Information > Newsletter
For the latest updates on Eurex products and services please follow us on Twitter @EurexGroup and LinkedIn. Download the new Eurex App. www.eurexchange.com/app
Singapore
Peter FrickeEurex Singapore Branch
9 Raffles Place #56 – 01 Republic Plaza Singapore 048619
T +65-65 97-30 62
Hong Kong
Markus Georgi
Eurex Representative Office Hong Kong 2904 – 7, 29/F, Man Yee Building,
68 Des Voeux Road Central, Central Hong Kong T +852-25 30-78 20
China/Taiwan
Michael Hsih
Eurex Representative Office Hong Kong 2904 – 7, 29/F, Man Yee Building,
68 Des Voeux Road Central, Central Hong Kong T + 886-987-16 81 12
Tokyo
Masashi Takeuchi
Deutsche Börse Group Representative Office Tokyo 12th floor Yurakucho ITOCiA, 2-7-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-0006 Japan
T +81-3-68 60-45 43 F +81-3-68 60-45 01 [email protected]
Frankfurt
Gregor Althoff Eurex Frankfurt AG 60485 Frankfurt/Main, GermanyContacts
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Eurex derivatives are currently not available for offer, sale or trading in the United States or by United States persons (other than EURO STOXX 50®Index Futures, EURO STOXX 50®ex Financials Index Futures,
EURO STOXX®Select Dividend 30 Index Futures, EURO STOXX®Index Futures, EURO STOXX®Large/
Mid/Small Index Futures, STOXX®Europe 50 Index Futures, STOXX®Europe 600 Index Futures, STOXX®
Europe 600 Banks/Industrial Goods & Services/Insurance/Media/Travel & Leisure/Utilities Futures, STOXX®
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The STOXX®indexes, the data included therein and the trademarks used in the index names are the
intellectual property of STOXX Limited and/or its licensors. Eurex derivatives based on the STOXX®indexes
are in no way sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by STOXX and its licensors and neither STOXX nor its licensors shall have any liability with respect thereto.
Dow Jones, Dow Jones Global Titans 50 IndexSMand Dow Jones Sector Titans IndexesSMare service marks
of Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All derivatives based on these indexes are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Dow Jones & Company, Inc. does not make any representati-on regarding the advisability of trading or of investing in such products.
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All references to London Gold and Silver Fixing prices are used with the permission of The London Gold Market Fixing Limited as well as The London Silver Market Fixing Limited, which for the avoidance of doubt has no involvement with and accepts no responsibility whatsoever for the underlying product to which the Fixing prices may be referenced.
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