IN NUMBERS: Q2 2022

Q1 ADV: $67.9bn
Up 20% from Q4 2021

On May 16, EBS will implement what FX Markets has called ‘one of the largest technology projects for the Foreign Exchange market.’ This will be our most significant upgrade to date, to ensure that clients have reliable access to the liquidity of the EBS primary market.

We trust that the additional time to complete migration since the crisis in Ukraine began – and the consequential market disruption, volatility, and resource challenges our clients have experienced – has proven useful.  While we know and appreciate that many of our clients are ready, the focus of this special edition of The EBS Report is on ensuring that our entire community is fully prepared for May 16 – with a checklist of final steps.

Pre-trade, point-of-trade, and post-trade, there are three crucial steps all market participants need to take to ensure trading, reporting, access to credit, and all permissions are in place for a seamless day 1:

With one new and enhanced shared credit model across EBS Market and EBS Direct, access to credit will be more efficient. It’s crucial and simple to ensure that your limits are in place and to verify that your credit is set up.

Verify your credit setup in the new EBS Risk Manager Portal

Manage everything from Firm IDs, to the different venues your traders can access (EBS Market and/or EBS Direct), to who you want to trade with on EBS Direct, to which currencies you see on the Workstation from the new self-service portal.

Check that all GFID and GUS entitlements are in place in the Request Center

With the move to Globex, all MIFID short codes will remain the same, but please double-check that your algo short codes have all been updated to a numeric format to configure with CME Globex, as alphanumeric short codes are no longer accepted.

As the NEX SEF is revising its audit trail requirements to align to the current requirements on CME Globex for futures and options, ensure that compliance and front office teams are familiar with changes to the draft Market Regulation Advisory Notice (MRAN) on Order Routing and Front-End Audit Trail Requirements and Operator ID requirements.

Monitor the liquidity: top-of-book volume and activity in EBS Market & Direct

Use our interactive FX Market Profile tool to drill into performance of our markets by currency, and to uniquely compare volume with CME FX futures side by side.

Every report you currently receive, and every report you may want to receive, will now be available via two means:

Automated through EREP: This enables you to pull the reports you need, in the frequency you need them, and to configure recipients. This includes all trade reports, credit reports, billing reports, and audit trail – such as all end-of-day (EOD) reports.

Automated through SFTP: Available on CME Group servers to pull onto your servers. This includes all trading and audit trail reporting.

If you have automated the consumption of any EBS reports internally, it is important to check that the new report layouts will continue to be consumed correctly post migration. To access your EBS reports (EREP/SFTP), please register through your Back Office admin manager.

Choose how you want to receive reports

Participate in our early access live environment: Liquid, live, settled transactions in a limited set of EBS currencies enables full end-to-end trading and confidence in upstream and downstream processes working smoothly.

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Prepare in a mock environment, participate at a weekend: Test, stress, and experience each stage of the trade in any EBS product during our two remaining weekend mock sessions and test every product.