Derivatives

The new offering will go live on 10 November 2025 and is set to allow a wider range of firms to trade directly on Eurex without a membership.  

The TRADE sits down with Christian Beinert, FX trader at MEAG, to explore the next stage of options trading including new automated strategies, clearing, and the need for greater collaboration between OEMS and trading platforms. 

The integration is set to address industry challenges created by manual voice-based workflows and follows an increasing automation drive in the OTC derivatives space in recent months.  

The offering aligns with a growing interest in 24/7 trading across the industry in recent months, with exchanges such as Nasdaq and Cboe Global Markets unveiling plans to extend US equities trading hours. 

Individual previously spent more than 11 years at BTIG, most recently as a vice president for outsourced trading.  

Individual joins the broker after spending the last five years at Citi working across various roles.  

The contracts are listed on the Euronext Derivatives Milan market, and are powered by the exchange’s clearing platform.  

Although FX options are gaining some traction across the industry, with electronification beginning to take shape, other instruments appear to be retaining dominance, panellists discussed at the TradeTech FX conference in Barcelona.  

The delivery follows the launch of FMX in September 2024, as well as the exchange’s two-year and five-year UST futures contracts unveiled in May 2025. 

The contracts are scheduled to go live in Q1 2026 and follows strong adoption of FLEX options in the US since the products were launched in the region in 1993.