Eurex Fixed Income Futures Report Limits

Published on: Jan 26, 2025

On Jan. 22, Eurex issued issued latest reporting and position limits.

  • Eurex published circular 006/25 Euro Fixed Income Futures: Definition of reporting and position limits for March 2025; position limits apply only to long positions of products.
  • Follows On Oct. 2024 Eurex issued latest reporting and position limits, see #199974.
  • Limits
  • Apply only to long positions in the front month contracts of the products concerned.
  • Reporting limits will be valid from Feb. 28, 2025 after close of trading, to Mar. 3, 2025.
  • Position limits will be valid from Mar. 4, 2025, start of trading, until expiration of the March contract on Mar. 6, 2025; and long positions in Mar. 2024 contracts must therefore all be within the prescribed limits at start of trading on Mar. 4, 2025.
  • The measure by Eurex Deutschland is based on § 11 Para. 1 of Eurex Exchange Rules.
  • Limits will be monitored intraday by Trading Surveillance Office of Eurex Deutschland.
  • Required Action
  • In case the position limits have been exceeded, Exchange Participants are obliged according to § 11 Paragraph 5 of the Eurex Exchange Rules to submit a list of long positions in Eurex C7 Clearing GUI including clear names of customers to surveillance.
  • Immediate position adjustments should be made by using Trade Adjustment function (Open/Close Adjustment) instead of Position Close-Out, to avoid all late closing fees.
  • If position limits are exceeded, respective participants will be requested to specify a Eurex user ID that can be used by Eurex Deutschland to undo the exceeding of limits.
  • Reporting and Position Limits
  • Reporting and position limits for Mar. 2025 contracts in Euro Fixed Income Futures are:
  • Euro-Buxl®-Futures (FGBX)-65,000 contracts; euro-Bund-Futures (FGBL)-70,000 contracts; euro-Bobl-Futures (FGBM)-70,000 contracts; euro-Schatz-Futures (FGBS) - 55,000 contracts; long-term euro-BTP-Futures (FBTP) - 70,000 contracts.
  • Mid-Term euro-BTP-Futures (FBTM)- 40,000 contracts; short-term euro-BTP-Futures (FBTS)-55,000 contracts; euro-OAT-Futures (FOAT)-70,000 contracts; mid-term-euro-OAT-Futures (FOAM)-60,000 contracts; euro-bono-futures (FBON)-60,000 contracts.
  • Effectiveness
  • Position limits valid Mar. 4, 2025, start of trading, until March contract expires Mar. 6.
  • Long positions in Mar. 2025 contracts must be within prescribed limits by Mar. 4, 2025.
Regulators
Eurex
Entity Types
B/D; Bank; Depo; Exch
Reference
Cir 006/2025, 1/22/2025
Functions
Audit; Operations; Reporting; Settlement; Technology; Trade Reporting; Trading
Countries
EU Exchange
Category
State
N/A
Products
Banking; Clearing; Equity; Fixed Income; Futures; Securities
Rule Type
Final
Regions
EMEA
Rule Date
Jan 22, 2025
Effective Date
Mar 4, 2025
Rule ID
241291
Linked to
Reg. Last Update
Jan 22, 2025
Report Section
EU