Eurex Frankfurt AG
Operated by Deutsche Börse AG we offer a broad range of international benchmark products and operate one of the most liquid fixed income markets in the world, featuring open and low-cost electronic access. With market participants connected from 700 locations worldwide, trading volume at Eurex exceeds 1.8 billion contracts a year, making us the market place of choice for the derivatives community worldwide.
Operating as a lean, entrepreneurial organization we strive to fulfill customer demand. Our team of dedicated professionals does its utmost to offer every class of investor the advantages of having spot and futures markets as well as related clearing and settlement activities all fully integrated under one roof.
Since its inception in 1998, Eurex has continually set a proven track record in electronic trading and clearing and is proving the success of its business model year in and year out by providing highly efficient liquidity pools.
Having quickly become an integral part of the global derivatives market, we have closed with record volumes of traded contracts every year. We consider our combination of superior market integrity and efficiency combined with a truly global product and service portfolio our greatest competitive asset. Thus, we offer you the following benefits:
Offering the highest integrity possible
Regulatory integrity
Neutrality to the markets, a clear and binding regulatory framework and the supervision through the responsible authorities is key, especially in volatile market conditions. We have three levels of oversight: federal, state and internal regulatory measures.
Electronic trading improves the regulatory monitoring of trading activities of banks and other market participants. The transparency of real-time "straight-through processing" from order to trade to clearing greatly improves supervision for both exchanges and their participants.
Fair price discovery
The deep market liquidity of our products, and the diversity of our Trading Participants ensure fair, transparent and competitive pricing. Price discovery takes place continuously throughout the trading day as market participants submit orders and quotes in central order books where they are matched against each other. In option and certain futures contracts, Market Makers support order book liquidity by providing constant quotes, thereby facilitating price discovery.
Efficient and leading risk management
Eurex Clearing guarantees the fulfillment of every trade made in any of the markets for which it provides its services, offering Clearing Members a variety of industry leading risk management tools from pre-trade risk tools to pro-active risk monitoring. The quintessence is an event-driven fully-automated supervision which marks each Clearing Members current open positions to market, in real-time. By doing trading and risk management simultaneously, growing risk management needs - due to algorithmic trading and direct market access - are adequately accounted for. With its Risk-based Margining system, Eurex Clearing protects against the risk of default like no other clearing house.
Our high trading volumes averaging seven million contracts per day give you the benefit of a large liquidity pool, high speed execution and the tightest spreads. Our global distribution network uses outstanding T7 technology from Deutsche Börse to connect a diversity of Members and Users from around 700 locations around the world, giving you direct access to a reliable world of performance, speed and proximity.
Unmatched market efficiency
A cornerstone of our success is the unmatched market efficiency that we provide. Market participants enjoy efficient access to liquidity, a robust global distribution network and unparalleled system performance.
Efficient access to liquidity
Our fully automated markets offer Members immediate access to a wide range of international, highly liquid products, which have proven themselves resilient, especially in volatile markets.
Bid/ask spreads in our benchmark products are routinely one tick wide, and liquidity in many products continues to develop strongly. We have Market Makers in all of our option markets. In addition, new product launches are supported by Designated Market Makers to ensure liquidity right from the start of trading. Members receive market depth of up to 20 levels deep, providing enhanced decision-making information.
Global distribution network and customer diversity
To reduce barriers to membership we have broadened access to our markets, enhancing liquidity for all market participants. Currently, our global distribution network connects more than 400 institutions from 32 countries, with more than 8,000 admitted traders.
System performance
As a pioneer of electronic trading, we anticipate future developments in technology by constantly optimizing the T7-system to accelerate trading speed and throughput. By upgrading system capacity, enhancing real-time information distribution and improving interfaces, we are always one step ahead.
The tripling of system transactions since March 2007 is a testament to the need for continual enhancement. In fact, the average is nearly seven million contracts traded in a single day. Capacity, at over 800 million quotes per day, is not the only thing that Eurex is continually enhancing. By offering the Enhanced Transaction Interface, response time for orders has been reduced to six milliseconds.
