Contract standards
Swiss Average Rate Overnight (SARON®), a collateralized reference rate based on actual market transactions and prices in the Swiss inter-bank repo market.
Contract value
CHF 2,500 per index point.
Settlement
Cash settlement, payable on the first Swiss exchange day following the final settlement day.
Price quotation and minimum price change
The price quotation is in index points with three decimal places on an index basis of 100 less the numerical value of the interest rate traded. The minimum price change is 0.005 index points, equivalent to a value of CHf 12.50.
Contract months
Up to 36 months: The twelve nearest quarterly months of the March, June, September and December cycle.
Last trading day and final settlement day
Last trading day is the final settlement day. Final settlement day is the first exchange days prior to the third Wednesday of the respective maturity month, provided that on that day the SIX Swiss Exchange AG has determined the reference interest rate SARON®; otherwise, the exchange day immediately preceding that day. Close of trading in the maturing futures on the last trading day is at 18:00 CET.
Daily settlement price
The daily settlement price for the current maturity month of 3M SARON® Futures is derived from the volume-weighted average of the prices of all transactions during the minute before 17:15 CET (reference point), provided that more than five trades transacted within this period.
For the remaining maturity months, the daily settlement price for a contract is determined based on the average bid/ask spread of the combination order book.
Final settlement price
The final settlement price is established by Eurex on the final settlement day after the last SARON® fixing at 18:00 CET and is determined by the following formula:
To fix the final settlement price, the numerical value of the SARON® rate is rounded to three decimal places and then subtracted from 100..
Admitted to the Eurex Block Trade Service with a Minimum Block Trade Size of 100 contracts.