TOCOM Commodity Market Seminar Hong Kong July 16, 2014 Ryoichi Seki Senior Vice President Global Business Development
TOCOM Overview (1) Long History in Derivatives Markets Established in 1984 with the merger of the Tokyo Textile (est. 1951), Tokyo Rubber and Tokyo Gold Exchanges. Rubber launched in 1952, Gold in 1982, Platinum in 1984 and Gasoline and Kerosene in 1999
Asia’s Leading Commodity Futures Exchange Fair and transparent market with open access Metals, Petroleum and Agricultural Commodities including: • Gold, silver, crude oil, rubber, soybeans, sugar, etc. Screen-based trading for all contracts Open for trading 17 ½ each day, covering financial business hours in Asia, Europe and N. America.
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TOCOM Overview (2)
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Diverse Market Participants Foreign Participation: 40% of Volume
Market Participant Type (Sep 2013)
(Jan - May 2014) Breakdown by Country
HK
47%
USA
24%
Day Session
28%
4%
Night Session
20,000 15,000
15,000
10,000
10,000
5,000
5,000
0
0 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 15:30
21%
31%
Commercial Prop
Night Session: 37% of Volume (Jan - Mar 2014) 25,000
Open Interest
13% 22%
Singapore 20% 6% Australia Others
Trading Volume
18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00 0:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00
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37%
44%
4%
Retail Others
Implementing Growth Strategy Expanding Global Customer Base Through: Direct Market Access (DMA): broadens access by clarifying legal uncertainties. Recognition by foreign regulators as comparable markets granted by: • DFSA (Dubai) in June 2012 • MAS (Singapore) in June 2014 • Hong Kong: received authorization to provide Automated Trading Services (ATS) from Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) in February 2014 Extended Trading Hours: Effective from July 22, 2014: from July 22
current schedule
Day Session
9:00 am to 3:15 pm
9:00 am to 3:30 pm
Break between Sessions
1h 15m
1h 30m
Night Session
4:30 pm to 4:00 am (Rubber closes at 7:00 pm)
5:00 pm to 4:00 am (Rubber closes at 7:00 pm)
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TOCOM Global Network Service
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Low Latency Connectivity, Global Ether-WAN Go Live on September 16
Tokyo
Latency:122ms(RTD)
TOCOM Proximity DC
CME Group DC (Aurora)
Ethernet Ex:10,30,50,100M
Broker A Rack
TOCOM Matching Engine
Broker B Rack
Carrier Rack
Chicago Ethernet Ex:10,30,50,100M
Protected
Carrier Rack
Xconnect Broker C Rack
Demarcation Point
(** please see below)
Carrier Rack
Protected
Xconnect (* please see below)
Customer Rack
Carrier Rack
Demarcation Point (TOCOM specific termination device is installed) ** “Xconnect cable from Carrier Rack to broker rack should be ordered by broker.”
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* “Xconnect cable from Carrier Rack to customer rack should be provisioned by CME Co-location user.”
Treatment of Segregation of Customers’ Funds Trading Commodity Futures in Japan deposit of customer assets
A = 100
Customer
Japanese FCM
deposit of margin
B = 90
Japanese Clearinghouse
C: Amount required to be segregated and deposited with a trust company, etc.
C = A – B = 10
Trading Commodity Futures outside of Japan Not comparable market
Customer
A = 100
Japanese FCM
C =100 Comparable market
Customer
A = 100
Japanese FCM
B = 90
Foreign FCM
Deposit as Regulated Segregated Customer Funds
B = 90
HK FCM
(c)
(c)
Foreign Clearinghouse
HK Clearinghouse
C = A – B =10 Arbitrage trading on TOCOM market..
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Implementing Growth Strategy Enhance Exchange functionality to meet the needs of hedgers Inter-commodity Spreads • Introduced in March 2014 for the Oil market to enable the simultaneous execution two legs of a crack spreads at a specified spread price.
Asian Precious Metals Benchmark • Exploring the possibility of new benchmark prices for gold and silver during Asian business hours to provide transparent price discovery in the region
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JOE & JCCH for OTC Trading
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New OTC market and clearing launched on June 24th, 2014: Japan OTC Exchange (JOE): TOCOM and Ginga Energy Japan joint venture TOCOM subsidiary Japan Commodity Clearinghouse (JCCH) provides OTC clearing Products
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RIM Swap: Gasoline, Kerosene, Gas oil, Bunker A fuel oil and LSA fuel oil
TOCOM Swap: Crude oil, Gasoline, Kerosene, Gas Oil, Chukyo-Gasoline, Chukyo-Kerosene
LNG Planned launch for cash-settled forwards mid-2014
Comprehensive Energy Market Providing Extensive Slate of Energy Products Asia dominates the global energy landscape. TOCOM aims to play a key role in developing price discovery and risk management tools with new products and updates to existing energy contracts. LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) • East Asia is the world’s largest LNG importing region and is in need of hedging products.
• Our first offering is OTC LNG trading on JOE – to be followed by LNG futures trading on TOCOM. Electricity • TOCOM is preparing electricity futures as power market deregulation in Japan enters its second phase in 2016.
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Inquiries For more information, please visit our website at: www.tocom.or.jp Or contact us at:
TOCOM Global Business Development Dept. Tel: +81-3-3661-1660 Fax: +81-3-3664-0089 http://www.tocom.or.jp/contact.html
About Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc. (TOCOM) is Japan’s largest, and one of Asia’s most prominent commodity futures exchanges. TOCOM operates electronically-traded markets for oil (crude oil, gas oil, gasoline & kerosene), precious metals (gold, options on gold futures, silver, platinum & palladium), rubber, and soft commodities (soybeans, azuki, corn & raw sugar). TOCOM leads the Japanese commodity futures market with a share of over 98% in 2013 and volume of 26.8 million lots.
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