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TTFIX.crt: Update Notice

August 19

For customers whose FIX engine natively supports SSL encryption, or who have implemented FIX session encryption using STunnel, TT provides a TTFIX.crt file with the public certificates used by the TT platform FIX endpoint.

On July 23, 2022, TT will update the stunnel.zip file located in the Download Center in order to update the soon-to-be-expired certs in the TTFIX.crt bundle.

All TT customers who use STunnel must download the new zip file and apply it at any time before August 19, 2022.

Added TT Platform STAR.TRADE.TT; valid from July 11, 2022 – August 12, 2023 (DC)

Additional Resources

Please download the updated stunnel.zip here

Directions for configuring a stunnel with TTFIX.crt can be found on the TT FIX Help Site

SGX Titan: Industry-wide BCP Exercise

August 27

SGX is conducting an Industry-Wide Business Continuity Planning Exercise scheduled for Saturday, 27 August 2022. All Singapore-based Securities and Derivatives Trading, and Clearing Members are required to participate in this exercise.

Additional details about connecting to TT for participation will be provided in due course.

Please note that the deadline for registration is August 5.

Additional Resources

Circular Derivatives – SGX Industry-wide BCP Exercise

CME: Globex Product Code Change to European Low Sulphur Gasoil (100 mt) Bullet Futures – Resting Order Eliminations

August 29

Effective Sunday, August 28 (trade date Monday, August 29), European Low Sulphur Gasoil (100mt) Bullet Futures symbol GLI will be changed to 7F. 

To facilitate this change, customers must cancel all Good ‘Til Cancel (GTC) and Good ‘Til Date (GTD) orders for existing 1-year average priced bundle future spreads by the close on Friday, August 26. After 16:00 CT on Friday, August 26, any remaining GT orders on these markets will be removed by the CME.

This change will be available for customer testing on Monday, August 8th.

CME: Listing Pack Spreads on 3-Month SOFR Futures: Resting Order Eliminations

August 29

Effective Sunday, August 28 (trade date Monday, August 29), pack spreads on 3-Month SOFR futures for 1-year average priced bundle future spreads will be listed for trading on CME.

To facilitate this change, customers must cancel all Good ‘Til Cancel (GTC) and Good ‘Til Date (GTD) orders for existing 1-year average priced bundle future spreads by the close on Friday, August 26. After 16:00 CT on Friday, August 26, any remaining GT orders on these markets will be removed by the CME.

These spreads will be available for testing in UAT on Monday, August 1st.

ASX: Intraday changes to ASX 24 NTP System

September 1

ASX has announced that effective September 1, the exchange will begin making changes to products intraday whenever needed for the resolution of issues in Production. TT worked together with ASX and completed all testing necessary for this update to exchange policy. It was confirmed that all intraday changes will be handled correctly without issue.

CME: DR Datacenter Migration and Test

September 10

CME is announcing the move and upgrade of the backup datacenter. To ensure customers can connect to the new backup datacenter, CME will hold a Mock Disaster Recovery Test on Saturday, September 10. 

Please note: TT will remain in our Production Environment for this test.

Customers must register in advance to participate.

Additional Resources

Globex Notices June 30, 2022

Mock Trading Script

JPX: Introduction of Holiday Trading

September 20

JPX has announced the introduction of Holiday Trading with a launch date of September 20, 2022. This new exchange initiative will allow trading during Japan public holidays for Index Futures and Options and all Commodity Futures and Options (including TOCOM products). Securities Options, JGB Futures and Options on JGB Futures will not be tradable during holidays.

For correct support of order management and trading during holidays, and correct display of trading status during holidays, Holiday Trading ready versions of TT Order Connector (OC) and TT Market Data Server (MDS) have been deployed to UAT and are now available for testing.

The completed J-GATE3.0_Holiday_Trading_Checklist・ConfirmationForm.xlsx document is also available now for all customers to submit to the exchange. Please contact your TT Onboarding representative to obtain the document.

For detailed information about JPX Holiday Trading on the TT Platform, please refer to the JPX Holiday Trading document. This document will be kept up to date with the latest information as it becomes available, so customers are encouraged to check periodically to get the newest updates. Note that several important updates were added on August 4.

JPX: System Reboot

September 20

JPX has announced the introduction of Recovery by system reboot with a launch date of September 20, 2022. This new exchange initiative is to allow the exchange to resume trading following certain failure scenarios. JPX is rolling this out as a response to Arrowhead failures experienced by the exchange during the 2021 Calendar year.

TT Platform will fully support all elements of the System Reboot process including all sequence number changes, settlement price updates and post-reboot order workflow. TT Business and Engineering Teams will coordinate efforts to verify correct platform response during the pre-scheduled test environment weekday test events.

For additional information about JPX Holiday Trading on the TT Platform, please refer to the JPX System Reboot TT Factsheet.

MX: API Upgrade (SAIL B3, HSVF D7)

UAT September 30 / Prod November 11

Montreal exchange is upgrading their Order Entry, Market data and Drop copy protocols.

  • GTE (Test environment) availability – Aug 18th, 2022
  • Production – Nov 14th, 2022

This is a hard API upgrade, meaning our UAT and internal test environments are going to be down until our code changes are in place to support this upgrade.

Our current target date is September 30th for UAT, but we aim to implement new changes and upgrade uat as soon as possible.

TFEX: SET BCP Exercise

October 8

TFEX is conducting a SET Business Continuity Planning Exercise scheduled for Saturday, October 8, 2022. All Members are required to participate in this test to ensure that the backup trading system can function immediately and continuously in any case where the main trading system is unable to function.

Additional details about connecting to TT for participation will be provided in due course.

The exchange is planning to distribute the test details and additional documentation during the month of September 2022.

FIA: Industry-Wide Testing

October 15

The Futures Industry Association will sponsor its annual Industry-Wide Disaster Recovery Testing (IWT) on Saturday, October 15. We will facilitate customer participation for registered TT platform customers. 

Testing is available on the following exchanges:

  • CFE 
  • CME 
  • Eurex 
  • Euronext
  • ICE 
  • Montréal Exchange
  • Nodal

Customers who plan to participate in the FIA IWT should contact their Onboarding Manager to register for testing and provide exchanges that will be tested along with Connection_IDs that will be used during the test.

Ping/telnet tests for CFE, CME and ICE exchanges will be completed by TT staff as required.

Eurex: T7 11.0 Upgrade

November 21

Eurex will be upgrading T7 to version 11.0 on November 21, 2022. More details will be provided in upcoming System News and Updates. Eurex will upgrade the simulation environment on September 12. TT’s UAT environment will be available shortly after the 12th, date TBC.

Euronext: Change of format for Trading Venue Transaction ID (TVTIC) for Euronext Markets

November 21

A new field, Trade Unique Identifier (TUI) will be disseminated within the Order Entry Gateway, Market Data Gateway and Drop Copy and will be used as the new TVTIC (Trading Venue Transaction Identification Code) across all Euronext markets to uniquely identify a trade. TVTIC used for TRS22 purposes will have a new format. TT will implement the new field/format on 21 November 2022. More details to follow in upcoming System Updates.

ICE: Mandatory Migration from LMA to IM-SMA

December 31

ICE has started the process of phasing out Locally Managed Accounts (“LMAs”) by introducing a new set-up feature, called Independently-Managed System Managed Account (“IM SMA”), in the ICE Clearing Admin tool which is designed to replace LMAs. The timeline for the migration has been set to the  year-end.

The new ICE IM SMA feature is available within the SMA functionality and is replacing the legacy LMA, which will be phased out completely by December 31, 2022. The new IM SMA feature offers Clearing Members more control over accounts than is available with LMA. 

With IM SMA set-up, it is mandatory to send in tags 439 (Clearing Firm) and 440 (Clearing Account) to the exchange. The customer could continue using tag 9207 (CustAccountRefID field) as an optional field to distinguish the customer business. ICE is targeting December 31, 2022, as the end date for LMA access. In line with this milestone, ICE will not support the creation of any new LMA access starting August 01, 2022.

The TT platform already supports the required tags for IM SMA as required by ICE. Below are the mappings between the required tags and the respective fields in the TT user set up.

  • Tag Tag 439 – Clearing Firm ID
  • Tag 440 – Exchange Account

Customers are requested to get in touch with TT onboarding team in case any assistance is needed for the set up.

Eurex: Next Generation ETD Contracts

February 6, 2023

Eurex is aiming to introduce a more flexible set-up of Exchange Traded Derivatives (ETD) products by implementing an enhanced contract identification concept in February 2023 allowing more than one expiration per month on product level (sub-monthly contracts).

New features, changes and improvements:

  • Integration of Weekly Expiring Instruments on Product Level
  • Volatility Strategies in Single Stock Options
  • Market-On-Close Futures T+X (Basis Trading in Equity Index Futures)

Weekly contracts will follow the new format of DDMMYYYY (current format: MMYYY), and will be listed under the same Product symbol as the Monthly contracts. 

Example: OES1, OES2, OES4, OEB4 will be listed under the OESB Product Symbol, and will be sequentially integrated. 

Monthly Option: OESB Sep22

Sub-monthly Options, Week 1-5): OESB Sep22-W1Fr, OESB Sep22-W2Fr, OESB Sep22-W3Fr, OESB Sep22-W4Fr, OESB Sep22-W5Fr

Market on Close T+X will be eligible for MSCI Futures. An example is the following:

On T, Client trades the calendar between the daily future (T+1) and the standard future. After the T+1 session, the index close of T+1 is published by MSCI. On T+2, the T+1 index close is entered as the Final Settlement Price for the daily future. At the end, the Client has paid basis + index close for the standard future. 

Eurex Next Generation ETD contracts are now available in UAT for customer testing. The following products are now available, please see the product symbols below and use those for testing purposes:

Active as of July 2022:

T+X MSCI Futures and Spreads (FMEA, FMWN)

Integration of sub-monthly options (NOA3, OGBL, AXA, BAY, CSGN, ROG, ODAX (including end of month contracts), OSMI)

Daily expiring single stock futures (AXAP, BAYP, NO3P, ROGP)

Activation Date: 23 Sept 2022 (integration period until 18 Oct 2022):

Integration of all weekly expiring contracts OES1/OES2/OES4/OMSX in option OESX

Activation Date 30 Sept 2022:

Daily expiring contracts in MSCI Futures FMWO, FMJP, FMEF

Activation Date 6 Oct 2022:

Daily expiring contracts in single stock futures in ADSP, BMWP, UBSP

Please refer to the attached Eurex Simulation Calendar, as the 3-day rolling contracts will follow the Business Day rather than Calendar day.

Additional Resources

Eurex Circular