Trading Model

Trading facilities of both EEX and Eurex operate on the very same technical platform. The trading models, market control and supervision procedures, and finally the surveillance tools are similar - sometimes even identical. However, both exchanges operate in a slightly different regulatory environment, where Eurex is regulated and supervised as a financial derivatives exchange and EEX is regulated and supervised as a commodity exchange. However, there are no material differences with respect to membership admission criteria and trader admission criteria. Consequently, a lean admission process has been established and allowing members to start trading the cooperation products with minimal administrative effort.

Eurex Trading Members gain seamless access to the trading facilities of EEX via their existing Eurex infrastructure and Eurex GUI. The cooperation products are assigned to all Eurex members that have been admitted by EEX for the cooperation products. In addition, the respective Eurex Clearing Member designated to clear the cooperation products needs to assign the respective product group to the Eurex Trading Member. Once the internal system administrator has assigned the cooperation products and the respective access rights to the individual traders, Eurex traders are able to trade the cooperation products at EEX via their existing Eurex member and trader ID. Eurex traders can use their existing front-end solutions allowing the products to be handled with the same "look and feel" as any other Eurex product.