New Product Launch: AVERAGE RATE OPTIONS, 9 SEPT 2013

Fri 9 Aug 2013

Market participants are advised that ASX will launch Average Rate Options over Base Load Calendar Quarter Electricity Futures (BN, BV, BQ, BS) at 09:00am on Monday 9th September 2013 for Trade Date 9th September 2013.

Contract specifications for the new contracts are shown in ASX Notice 140/13.

Initial Margin rates and Intra and Inter-commodity offsets will be communicated in a subsequent notice.

Data vendor codes for vendor systems will be published on the ASX website Australian Electricity Futures page (http://www.asx.com.au/products/australian-electricity-trading-information.htm) once these codes have been provided.

If you have any product related queries please contact the ASX Energy Team on 1800 330 101 or email info@asxenergy.com.au. Queries on market access and system support for the contracts should be directed to Market Access on +61 2 9227 0372 or market.access@asx.com.au.