Eurex envisages two types of Market-Making and Liquidity provisioning activities for Futures and Options:
Regulatory Market-Making
Regulatory Market-Making (RMM) applies if the conditions of section 48 of the Eurex Exchange Rules applies, which ultimately refers to Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/578 Article 1; RMM is regulated under public law.
All Eurex Participants who fulfil the requirements stated in the Regulation have to apply for admission as (Regulatory) Market Maker at Eurex. The admission as Regulatory Market Maker in accordance with paragraph 48 of the Exchange Rules will be an admission for all Eurex products. As a result, the individual registration per product as announced in section 1.3. of Eurex circular 102/17 is no longer required and the eListing Tool will not be made available for the purposes of RMM. The application form is available under the following link:
Once registered as Regulatory Market Maker, all follow-up requirements according to Eurex Exchange Rules, section 49 need to be fulfilled. According to paragraph 49 of the Exchange Rules, Regulatory Market Makers will have to fulfil the quotation requirements in at least one product on a monthly average. However, the respective competent authority of a Market Maker may impose deviating rules.
The maximum bid-ask range for Regulatory Market-Making is available under the following link:
Report TD983 on the Common Report Engine will be available for all Eurex participants. The report will provide an overview of the fulfilment of RMM criteria for all Eurex Participants and for all products.
Liquidity provisioning
Liquidity provisioning is a commercial activity outlined in the “Eurex Liquidity Provider Framework”. All Eurex participants can participate in the Framework by signing the Eurex Liquidity Provider Agreement (LPA). The LPA is a tri-parti agreement between the Eurex participant, Eurex Frankfurt AG and Eurex Clearing AG.
Further to the LPA, the following elements take the form of a supplement to the LPA and are integral part of it:
Further to these documents, the Price List of Eurex Clearing AG applies.
These documents contain all Liquidity Provider requirements and incentives that are available upon fulfilment of the requirements.
For all Liquidity Providers, quotation performance and payout of incentives will be performed automatically for all Eurex products. No subscription (e.g, usage of eListing Tool) on a product-by-product basis is necessary.
Eurex Liquidity Provider Framework
Price List of Eurex Clearing AG
MiFID II / MiFIR: Overview of transaction fees and incentives
Program, Product, Size and Spread details
Eurex EnLight Building Block: Black list template
List of Eurex Regulatory Market Makers and Liquidity Providers
According to Article 7 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/578, Eurex is required to publish information on Market Makers and Liquidity Providers.
List of Eurex Regulatory Market Makers and Liquidity Providers
The admission as Regulatory Market Maker in accordance with paragraph 48 of the Exchange Rules is an admission for all Eurex products.
Quotation requirements
MMPM Parameters on Common Report Engine
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Risk protection for Market Makers
The Eurex® system provides Market Makers and Liquidity Providers in options in Basis Building Block and Package Building Block with various features for system-based risk protection. With these tools Market Makers and Liquidity Providers can significantly constrain operational and market risks.
Market Maker protection tool
The Market Maker protection tool is aimed at preventing too many simultaneous trade executions on quotes provided by a Market Maker or Liquidity Provider, offering additional control of the market risk.
The basic principle can be envisioned as a counter, counting the number of traded contracts per product on Market Maker's or Liquidity Provider’s quotes within a time frame of some seconds that the Market Maker or Liquidity Provider can define.
Once the time has elapsed the counter is set to zero and restarted. If the counter exceeds a threshold level defined by the Market Maker or Liquidity Provider, all remaining quotes are put on hold. Market Makers or Liquidity Providers can define three threshold values in the counter:
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Market Status ⓘ
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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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