- LME: Production Firewall Maintenance and Connectivity Test
- Nasdaq: Genium INET 6.6.0.0 upgrade
- CME: Resting Order Elimination: Changes to US Dollar/Offshore Chinese Renminbi (USD/RMB) and Options on E-mini Standard and Poor’s 500 Stock Price Index Futures
- HKEX: Block Trade Facility Enhancement
- FIA: Industry-Wide Testing
- JPX: Name Change of TSE Mothers Index Futures
- TFEX: New Currency Futures
- Eurex/EEX: T7 Release 12.0
- Eurex/EEX: ETI TLS Encryption
- SGX: Titan DT/DC Update
- TFEX: Extended Trading Hours
- CME: Mandatory Migration – iLink3 Binary Order Entry Protocol for CGW
- IDEM: Migration to Euronext
- HKEX: Self-Match Prevention Service Enhancements
- LME: New Trading Platform
LME: Production Firewall Maintenance and Connectivity Test
September 23/24 and September 30
LME is upgrading the firewall on production services in both primary data centre (DC1) and secondary data center (DC2) over two weekends in September. There is no customer participation involved, and TT will do connectivity testing on both dates.
Nasdaq: Genium INET 6.6.0.0 upgrade
September 23
On September 23, Nasdaq will be upgrading its trading system to Genium INET 6.6.0.0. We have reviewed the specifications, and there is no impact to TT systems.
CME: Resting Order Elimination: Changes to US Dollar/Offshore Chinese Renminbi (USD/RMB) and Options on E-mini Standard and Poor’s 500 Stock Price Index Futures
October 1
Please note: To facilitate this change, customers should cancel all Good Till Cancel (GTC) and Good Till Date (GTD) orders for these contracts by the close Friday, September 29. After 4pm CT on Friday, September 29, any remaining GT orders on these markets will be removed by CME.
Additional Resources:
Globex Notice: September 11, 2023
HKEX: Block Trade Facility Enhancement
Q3
HKEX has announced enhancements to improve the Block Trade workflow for a tentative Go Live in Q3 2023.
The list of HKEX enhancements is listed below. For support of “Block Trade Order Entry after the Close of T Session,” a new Trading Status is required. The new Block Trade Only trading state will appear in TT as “Post Trade” and these changes are completed, tested and available now for testing in the UAT environment. It has come to TT’s attention that Members have been asked to “confirm that all of your OAPI programs are capable of handling the new Session State on or before Aug 4, 2023.” Members should feel comfortable submitting this confirmation at any time, but should also feel free to confirm this first-hand using the UAT Environment.
For all other enhancements other than “Block Trade Order Entry after the Close of T Session,” it has been verified that there is no impact to the TT Platform. Customers should follow the instructions provided by the exchange for those three enhancements.
- Lower MVT for HSI and HSCEI Back Month Contracts
- Enhanced Block Trade Price Precision by Average Pricing
- Block Trade Order Entry after the Close of T Session
- Reporting Overnight Block Trades for MSCI Futures
Additional Resources
Exchange Circular MO/DT/157/23
TT Factsheet – HKEX Enhancement to the Block Trade Facility
FIA: Industry-Wide Testing
October 14
The Futures Industry Association will sponsor its annual Industry-Wide Disaster Recovery Testing (IWT) on Saturday, October 14. We will facilitate customer participation for registered TT platform customers.
Testing will be available on the following exchanges:
- CFE
- CME
- EEX
- 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 relevant exchanges will be completed by TT staff as required.
For additional details, please see the FIA Disaster Recovery Exercise information page.
JPX: Name Change of TSE Mothers Index Futures
November 6
JPX has announced that the product name of the TSE Mothers Index Futures will be changed to “TSE Growth Market 250 Index Futures” starting from November 6, 2023. For the TT platform this is a simple change of text value in TTW’s Description field / FIX Tag 107. The change will be reflected on TT starting from November 6, but there is no impact to trading functionality and no action is required on the part of TT end users.
TFEX: New Currency Futures
November 20
TFEX has announced plans for a production launch of the new Thailand Currency Futures with a tentative date of November 13 20, 2023. These are the same Currency Futures that were originally scheduled for launch in July of 2022 and Members already verified them during the 2022 IWT – MME testing.
Since the TT platform was fully updated for handling the products prior to the 2022 IWT tests, no further software changes are required on the TT side at this time. The Product Codes are as follows:
- EUR/THB Futures – “EUR”
- JPY/THB Futures – “JPY”
The exchange requires that Members verify the new Currency Futures in the TFEX “NEXT-B” Test Environment starting from September 4, 2023. The TT UAT Environment is currently being expanded to include NEXT-B connectivity, which will be available for access under the “TFEX_DEV” market starting from the end of August, 2023.
Eurex/EEX: T7 Release 12.0
November 20
Eurex will upgrade to T7 version 12.0 on November 20 2023. Eurex simulation is once again available and UAT access has been restored on the TT Platform.
TT is performing additional validation and testing of software on the new API, and will provide updates in UAT as needed leading up to the upgrade on November 20.
Eurex/EEX: ETI TLS Encryption
December
Eurex has implemented mandatory changes regarding data transmission via the T7 trading interfaces. These changes have been made to improve the security of information transmitted via communication networks to further reduce the risk of unauthorized interception, manipulation, or misuse.
Changes will be made by TT to meet these requirements. These changes will be mandatory on the following dates:
| Interface | Mandatory In Simulation | Mandatory in Production |
| ETI LF | 04 August 2023 | 23 October 2023 |
| ETI HF | 24 November 2023 | 11 December 2023 |
These changes have been available in UAT since early August, and will be deployed to production by the end of September.
SGX: Titan DT/DC Update
Q4
In a recent newsletter (“Titan DTDC Newsletter – Proposed T+1 Trading for United States Single Stock Futures”) SGX announced plans to extend trading hours for United States Single Stock Futures (Grab, SEA and TSMC Futures) into the T+1 session, with a tentative target timeframe of Q4, 2023.
As part of the implementation for this change, the exchange is making several changes to the behavior of OAPI messages, including the dissemination of Instrument Status (Trading Status) messages.
TT Platform Impact
There is no impact to the TT platform. All of the Titan DT/DC Update changes will be supported on TT automatically; no software changes are required. Customers are welcome to confirm the changes in the TT UAT environment, following the schedule outlined by the exchange in the “Session State Timings in Member Test Environment (MTE)” section of the newsletter.
TFEX: Extended Trading Hours
Q4
TFEX has announced tentative plans for an extension of trading hours for Non-Equity Products effective in Q4, 2023. The exchange is planning a 2-phased approach for implementation of the changes. Q4 is the tentative schedule for Phase 1; Phase 2 is still under consideration by the exchange.
TT Platform Impact
There is no impact to the TT platform. Since TT TFEX services already stay connected to the exchange past the new Non-Equity Products‘ closing time, no changes are required.
CME: Mandatory Migration – iLink3 Binary Order Entry Protocol for CGW
February 4, 2024
CME is introducing iLink3 on Convenience Gateways (CGW) for trading futures and options on CME Globex. The iLink3 protocol will launch on the existing CGWs beginning Q1 2024. All customers connected via CGW will need to migrate to iLink3 by Q4 2024. More details will follow in upcoming System Updates.
IDEM: Migration to Euronext
March 2024
IDEM products will be migrating to Euronext in March 2024. Further details will be provided as the date approaches, which can be found here.
HKEX: Self-Match Prevention Service Enhancements
Q2, 2024
HKEX has announced enhancements to their Self-Match Prevention Service which will expand the methods of utilizing and accessing the SMP feature. The enhancements have a tentative Go Live date in Q2 2024.
At this time, TT has no plans to support the new exchange feature enhancements. The already-existing HKEX SMP implementation will continue to operate normally, with no changes, both before and after the rollout of the exchange’s new enhancements.
LME: New Trading Platform
April 2024
LME will be introducing a new API for Order Entry and Market Data in Q2/2024. This will be made available in the UAT environment in Q4/2023. More information will be provided in upcoming System News and Updates.