Eurex Euro Fixed Income Futures Limits

Published on: Apr 29, 2025

On Apr. 24, Eurex issued euro fixed income futures limits, Jun. 2025.

  • Eurex published circular 035/25 Euro Fixed Income Futures: Definition of reporting and position limits for Jun. 2025, on position limits applying to long positions of products.
  • Follows Eurex Jan. 2025 issued issued latest reporting and position limit, see #241291.
  • Applicable Limits
  • Apply only to long positions in the front month contracts of the products concerned.
  • Reporting limits will be valid from May. 30, 2025 after close of trading, to Jun. 3, 2025.
  • Position limits will be valid from Jun. 4, 2025, start of trading, until expiration of the March contract on Jun. 6, 2025; and long any positions in Jun. 2024 contracts must therefore all be within the relevant prescribed limits at start of trading on Jun. 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
  • The new reporting and position limits for the Jun. 2025 contracts are as shown below.
  • Euro-Buxl®-Futures (FGBX) - 65,000 contracts; Euro-Bund-Futures (FGBL) - 70,000 contracts; Euro-Bobl-Futures (FGBM) - 80,000 contracts; Euro-Schatz-Futures (FGBS) - 55,000 contracts; and for Long-term euro-BTP-Futures (FBTP) - 70,000 contracts.
  • Mid-Term euro-BTP-Futures (FBTM) - 60,000 contracts; Short-term euro-BTP-Futures (FBTS) - 5,000 contracts; Euro-OAT-Future (FOAT) - 70,000 contracts; Mid-term-euro-OAT-Future (FOAM) - 60,000 contracts; Euro-bono-futures (FBON) - 70,000 contracts.
  • Effectiveness
  • Position limits valid Jun. 4, 2025 start of trading, until June contract expires Jun. 6.
  • Long positions in Jun. 2025 contracts must be within prescribed limits by Jun. 4, 2025.
Regulators
Eurex
Entity Types
B/D; Bank; Depo; Exch
Reference
Cir 035/25, 4/24/2025
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
Apr 24, 2025
Effective Date
Jun 4, 2025
Rule ID
252282
Linked to
Reg. Last Update
Apr 24, 2025
Report Section
EU