With Eurex FX, you can optimize your FX portfolios and mitigate the impact of UMR and SA-CCR capital requirements. FX investors who traditionally relied on OTC FX markets now discover FX futures as a tool to protect their portfolios from increasing costs stemming from counterparty risk and related regulations.
Eurex offers access to its cleared FX liquidity hub. You can tap into the liquidity streamed into our central limit order book (CLOB). Or you can leverage your bilateral trade relationship by asking for prices from your preferred dealers directly. Eurex is on a mission to provide full electronic access to cleared FX liquidity, letting you seamlessly integrate FX futures into your existing OTC FX workflows.
Central Limit Orderbook
Eurex offers trading in the CLOB, where participants interact anonymously with access to streamed prices by various bank and non-bank liquidity providers. Additionally, buy-side users can enter quotes themselves and, therefore, save the spread.
OTC traded yet centrally cleared
Eurex participants can trade FX futures directly with their OTC counterparties. Clients can request prices from their dealers and trade in an OTC-style fashion on a fully disclosed basis. This mirrors OTC market practices and offers clients/participants seamless access to cleared FX liquidity to optimize their portfolios. As in OTC markets, clients can trade with their dealers directly or utilize FX platforms such as 360T to manage all their trading relationships.The most common instruments for trading FX futures in an OTC-style fashion are block trades and EFPs – both of which will result in centrally cleared FX positions.
FX EFPs
Exchange for physicals (EFPs) are an off-book transaction model connecting OTC and ETD FX markets: establish an OTC FX position and easily convert it into a cleared FX futures contract. With EFPs, you can take advantage of OTC liquidity while establishing a cleared FX position. And there is a growing network of dealers offering highly automated execution services based on EFPs. Read more here: Exchange for Physicals (eurex.com).
FX block trades
A block trade allows market participants to privately negotiate the price bilaterally and has traditionally been used for larger transactions. Because we do not set any minimum thresholds for block trades in FX on Eurex, they are the ideal tool for risk transfer of any size. You can fully leverage your existing OTC relationships and add the bank and non-bank liquidity providers available in the Eurex FX network. For further information go to: Block Trades (eurex.com).
Why FX futures?
Why on Eurex?
Eurex is driving the electronification of FX futures. We aim to provide cleared FX products in existing FX and RFQ platforms, enabling easy access for our clients.
Our listed FX derivatives are currently available through the following RFQ platforms:
FX Sales
Frankfurt
T +49-69-211-1 26 19
London
T +44-20-78 62-76 64
Chicago
T +1-312-544-1056
*Note: due to regulatory restrictions, Eurex Clearing AG is currently not able to offer NDF clearing services in the United Kingdom and the U.S. until further notice.
