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Eurex Exchange
TypeDerivatives exchange
LocationEschborn, near Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Founded1998; 26 years ago (1998)
OwnerDeutsche BörseAG
Key peopleMembers of the Board: Michael Peters (CEO), Wolfgang Eholzer, Randolf Roth, Jonas Ullmann
No. of listingsAbout 2,200 Futures and options in equity, equity index, interest rate, volatility, dividend, FX, ETFs
Volume1.5 bn contracts ADV 5.9 mn contracts
Websitewww.eurex.com

Eurex Exchange is a German derivatives exchange which primarily offers trading in European based derivatives. The products traded on this exchange vary from German and Swiss debt instruments to European stocks and various stock indexes. All transactions executed on Eurex Exchange are cleared through Eurex Clearing, which functions as a central counterparty (CCP) for multi-asset class clearing of the above-mentioned exchange-traded product range[1] as well as over-the-counter traded products.[2]

As of 2015, in the Futures Industry Association’s annual survey, Eurex Exchange was ranked as the world's third-largest derivatives exchange by contract volume.[3][4] The Exchange is headquartered in Eschborn, Germany, near Frankfurt am Main, and it is operated by Eurex Frankfurt AG and Eurex Zürich AG, which are public companies wholly owned by the German stock exchange operator Deutsche Börse AG.[5]

History

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In the 1990s, Europe went through a power shift in its financial sector. London (LIFFE, London Financial Futures Exchange) began to lose dominance in trading German government bonds futures (The Bund) to the Frankfurt-based Deutsche Terminbörse (DTB). This event has come to be known as the ‘Battle of the Bund’.[6]

The DTB was one of the world's first electronic exchanges, and by 1997 had distributed its screens across Europe and into the United States. As the DTB was in the midst of a battle to wrench liquidity in the Bund contract away from its chief cross-continental rival, the open outcry operated LIFFE, it began the merger proceedings with SOFFEX (the Swiss Options and Financial Futures Exchange). The shift started gradually but then followed a “tipping point” dynamic that began in early 1998.[7]

All of these dynamic changes led in 1998 to the creation of Eurex. Its creation took almost a decade of close cooperation between the DTB and SOFFEX and their parent companies, Deutsche Börse AG and SIX Swiss Exchange to be completed. Eurex was jointly operated by Deutsche Börse and the SIX Swiss Exchange with the German group holding 50 percent of the voting rights and 85 percent of the share capital. This joint leadership lasted until January 2012, when Deutsche Börse acquired the remaining shares in Eurex Zurich AG from SIX Group AG, making Deutsche Börse the sole owner of the pan-European derivatives exchange.

Eurex has nine worldwide representative offices.

Trading technology

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The open outcry style of trading was still the norm in the US and the UK in 1998 when Eurex launched. Eurex Exchange was one of the first to offer a fully electronic trading platform as opposed to the traditional forms, such as open outcry or pit trading, available at the time. That means buyers and sellers transacted from remote locations and were brought together through an electronic trading platform and network.

A new platform was launched in 2013 and was known as the T7 trading architecture. T7 was originally developed by Deutsche Börse Group and it advanced electronic derivatives trading.[8] As of 2016, this trading system connected more than 7,700 traders in over 35 countries, trading more than 7.0 million contracts daily.[9][7]

References

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  1. ^ AG, Eurex Frankfurt. "Eurex Exchange - Products". www.eurex.com. Archived from the original on 2020-08-11. Retrieved 2016-08-31.
  • ^ Staff, Investopedia (21 July 2005). "EUREX".
  • ^ "2015-annual-survey-global-derivatives-volume - MarketVoice". www.marketvoicemag.org.
  • ^ "Leading derivatives exchanges by volume 2016 - Statistic". Statista.
  • ^ AG, Eurex Frankfurt. "Eurex Exchange - Corporate overview". www.eurexchange.com. Archived from the original on 2020-08-31. Retrieved 2016-08-31.
  • ^ "Battle of the Bund".
  • ^ a b "Eurex - MarketsWiki, A Commonwealth of Market Knowledge". www.marketswiki.com.
  • ^ AG, Eurex Frankfurt. "Eurex Exchange - T7 Trading architecture". www.eurexchange.com.
  • ^ "Deutsche Börse Group: 114.8 million contracts traded at Eurex in July 2016". 1 August 2016.
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