About Eurex Clearing

Aside from operating a fully electronic trading platform, Eurex provides an automated and integrated joint Clearing House. Eurex Clearing AG acts as the counterparty for derivatives, equities, bonds, and repo transactions traded at major international exchanges and trading platforms, eliminating the individual counterparty risk. The benefits are clear - use of Eurex Clearing AG virtually eliminates credit and counterparty risk, which reduces the overall trading costs for all our customers.

When a trade is executed in connected markets, Eurex Clearing AG stands between the buyer and seller as Clearing House for, and counterparty of, both contractual partners. The Clearing House enables the parties of the transaction to make further decisions fully independent of each other and limit counterparty risks to a single contractual partner.

The clearing system of Eurex Clearing AG, with its integrated safety and control mechanisms, thus guarantees fulfillment of every contract executed on connected platforms.

With this structure, Eurex participants benefit from a high-quality, cost-efficient and comprehensive value chain of trading and clearing services via a single electronic system.

For more information on Eurex please visit http://www.eurexchange.com/clearing_en.html.