Derivatives Markets
Liffe
Fees applicable in 2008 (Subject to change during the course of the year due to harmonisation process)
Effective from 1 January 2008
For further information on fees, please send your request to lchclearnetsa_BILLINGINFO@lchclearnet.com.
The rates indicated below are expressed in euro and are subject to VAT at the applicable rate.
Annual membership fee
LCH.Clearnet SA charges annual membership fees for clearing of derivative products. Waiting for further harmonisation, such fees are still different from a location to another. These membership fees are collected on a yearly basis (collected on the January 10th open business day for the preceding year - no pro rata is applied).
Amsterdam clearing segment:
Waiting for further harmonisation, no membership fee is currently charged on this clearing segment.
Brussels clearing segment:
Waiting for further harmonisation, no membership fee is currently charged on this clearing segment.
Lisbon clearing segment:
Waiting for further harmonisation, no membership fee is currently charged on this clearing segment.
Paris clearing segment:
LCH.Clearnet SA charges annual membership fees for clearing of interest-rate derivatives, and equity/index derivatives.
| Interest-rates | Commodities | Equity/Index | All derivatives | |
| Fee | 15,000* | none | 15,000 | 25,000* |
* Temporary fee holiday until further notice, only the Equity/Index annual membership fee will be effectively charged.
Clearing fees
A clearing fee is charged for each contract cleared. This fee varies according to the type of contract involved. Liquidity Providers / Market Makers and Electronic Locals benefit from special conditions (please look at each fee grid for details).
Except for Paris commodity derivatives (monthly fee collection), all fees described into this section are collected on a daily basis.
Amsterdam clearing segment:
| Product type (Central Market and Prof trades)
(fee per contract) | Brokers | Liquidity providers | |
| Client | House-Dealer | ||
| Equity and index derivatives | |||
| Equity options | 0.05 | 0.03 | |
| Tracker options | 0.05 | 0.03 | |
| AEX Index options | 0.05 | 0.03 | |
| AEX Index futures | 0.13 | ||
| Currency derivatives | |||
| Currency options | 0.05 | 0.03 | |
| Currency futures | 0.05 | 0.03 | |
| Maximum fee per order
(including combination orders) | 40 | 20 | 10 |
Brussels clearing segment:
| Product type (fee per contract) | Brokers
(Client and House accounts) | Market Makers |
| Equity options | 0.05 | 0.03 |
| BEL20ฎ Index options (BXO) | 0.05 | 0.03 |
| BEL20ฎ Index futures (BXF) | 0.40 | 0.12 |
Lisbon clearing segment:
| Product type (fee per contract) | Brokers
(Client and House accounts) | Market Makers |
| PSI 20 Index futures | 0.05 | 0.03 |
| Single Stock futures | 0.05 | 0.03 |
Paris clearing segment:
| Product type (fee per contract) | Brokers
(Client and House accounts) | Market Makers1 | Electronic Locals |
| Equity and Index derivatives | |||
| Equity options contract size of 100 | 0.05 | 0.03 | NA |
| Equity options contract size of 10 | 0.02 | 0.01 | |
| Tracker options | 0.05 | 0.03 | |
| CAC40 Options PXA (10) | 0.13 | 0.05 | |
| CAC40 Options PXL (1) | 0.02 | 0.01 | |
| CAC40 futures | 0.13 | 0.052 | |
| FTSEurofirst 80 and FTSEurofirst 100 futures | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.05 |
| FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Euro Zone and FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Europe futures | 0.053 | ||
| Commodity derivatives* | |||
| Milling wheat futures | 0.75 | NA | 0.302 |
| Rapeseed futures | |||
| Rapeseed Oil futures | |||
| Corn futures | |||
| Milling wheat options | - | ||
| Rapeseed options | |||
| Rapeseed Oil options | |||
| Corn options | |||
*. LCH.Clearnet SA applies an additional fee per contract which should have been netted in D day (such late netting fees are applied when the number of netted/offset contracts in D is superior to the sum of buy an sell contracts posted in D) on the basis of the following grid:
- 1 per contract from 50 to 500 no netted contracts
- 2 per contract from 501 to 1,000 no netted contracts
- 6 per contract over 1,001 no netted contracts
1. This specific market maker fees are only applied to members having special arrangements giving specific undertakings under contrat danimation agreements with Liffe in scheme that has been approved by LCH.Clearnet SA. For further information, please contact Liffe Trading department on +33 1 49 27 15 59. See also Paris market making scheme section
2. Where a transaction (on the same maturity) is cancelled out with a converse transaction in the course of the same trading session so that the result is a zero sum, fees are reduced by 50%.
3. Market Makers will benefit from a fee holiday until end of December 2008
Paris Market Making scheme
- Equity and Index options (MONEP): Total annual clearing and exercise/assignment fees payable by Market Makers on equity and index options (MONEP) may not exceed 100,000
- Tracker options: Total annual clearing and exercise/assignment fees payable by Market Makers on tracker options may not exceed 10,000 for General Market Makers.
Paris Large trades on Individual Equity Options (MONEP)
Large trades on equity options benefit from specific fees. Large trades are defined as posted trades with:
- At least 60,000 equity option contracts for contract size of 10 shares
- At least 6,000 equity option contracts for contract size of 100 shares
| Client account | House account | Market Maker account |
| 40 / posting | 20 / posting | 20 / posting |
Exercise (Tender) / Assignment, Cash Settlement and Delivery fees
Except for Amsterdam clearing segment (daily fee collection), fees described into this section are collected on a monthly basis.
Amsterdam clearing segment:
| Product type (fee per contract) | Fee Type | Brokers | Liquidity Providers | |
| Client | House-Dealer | |||
| Equity and index derivatives | ||||
| Equity options | Exercise/Assignment | 0.90 | 0.40 | 0.30 |
| Tracker options | Exercise/Assignment | 0.90 | 0.40 | 0.30 |
| Index options | Exercise/Assignment | 0.90 | 0.40 | 0.30 |
| Index futures | Tender/Assignment | 2.40 | 1.00 | |
| Currency derivatives | ||||
| Currency options | Exercise/Assignment | 0.90 | 0.40 | 0.30 |
| Currency futures | Tender/Assignment | 0.90 | 0.40 | 0.30 |
| Maximum fee per individual Exercise/Tender and Assignment | 1,000 | 600 | 500 | |
Brussels clearing segment:
| Product type (fee per contract) | Fee type | Brokers
(Client and House accounts) | Market Makers |
| Equity options | Exercise/Assignment | 0.30 | 0.05 |
| BEL20ฎ Index options | Exercise/Assignment | 0.30 | 0.05 |
| BEL20ฎ Index futures | Cash settlement | 0.90 | 0.17 |
Lisbon clearing segment:
| Product type (fee per contract) | Fee type | Brokers
(Client and House accounts) | Market Makers |
| PSI 20 Index futures | Cash settlement | 0.30 | 0.05 |
| Single Stock futures | Cash settlement | 0.30 | 0.05 |
Paris clearing segment:
| Product type (fee per contract) | Fee type | Brokers
(Client and House accounts) | Market Makers6 | Electronic Locals |
| Equity and Index derivatives | ||||
| Equity options contract size of 100 | Exercise/Assignment | 0.30 | 0.05 | NA |
| Equity options contract size of 10 | Exercise/Assignment | 0.05 | 0.02 | |
| Tracker options | Exercise/Assignment | 0.30 | 0.05 | |
| CAC40 Options - PXA | Exercise/Assignment | 0.30 | 0.05 | |
| CAC40 Options - PXL | Exercise/Assignment | 0.05 | 0.02 | |
| CAC40 futures | Cash settlement | 0.30 | 0.05 | |
| FTSEurofirst 80 and FTSEurofirst 100 Futures | Cash settlement | 0.30 | 0.05 | 0.30 |
| FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Euro Zone and FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Europe futures | Cash settlement | 0.30 | ||
| Commodity derivatives | ||||
| Milling wheat future | Delivery | 1.00 | ||
| Rapeseed future | ||||
| Rapeseed Oil future | ||||
| Corn future | ||||
| Milling wheat options | Exercise/Assignment | 1.00 | ||
| Rapeseed Oil options | ||||
| Rapeseed options | ||||
| Corn options | ||||
6. Equity/Index/Tracker Option Exercise and Assignment fees are taken into account for the market maker annual cap on fees (see also Paris Market making scheme section)
Clearing services
Fees described into this section are collected on a monthly basis.
Clearing services common to all clearing segments
A fee of 0.06 is charged per contract for both Internal and external corrections and Internal and external transfers (except transfer for restructuring see below).
The keys for fee distribution between sending Clearing Member and receiving Clearing Member are (distribution decision is made by the sending member only):
- Case nฐ1: 0% for sending Clearing Member - 100% for receiving Clearing Member
- Case nฐ2: 50% for sending Clearing Member - 50% for receiving Clearing Member
- Case nฐ3: 100% for sending Clearing Member - 0% for receiving Clearing Member
- Case nฐ4: 0% for sending Clearing Member- 0% for receiving Clearing Member; this case is not applicable, therefore the fees will be by default the Case nฐ2: 50% for sending Clearing Member - 50% for receiving Clearing Member.
Transfer fee for restructuring:
Transfers of positions resulting from the decision of an order-giver to change clearer, a change in the accounts attributed to the order-giver or a Clearing Members closure are subject to special rates.
A fee of 3.80 is charged per transfer. The total amount may not exceed 300 per request and is payable by the Clearing Member receiving the transfer (the above keys for fee distribution do not apply here).
The creation of positions on the position account of the Clearing Member is subject to special rates. The positions are updated in real time on the account of the Clearing Member. Only LCH.Clearnet SA is authorized to use the function of positions creation. The fees for this operation are:
- A creation of position between 0 and 100 lots: 10.00
- A creation of positions over 100 lots: 50.00
Clearing services specific to Paris clearing segment
Special conditions applying to commodity contracts
Delivery administration fee
LCH.Clearnet SA levies delivery administration fees on the buying member and selling member for each contract giving rise to a delivery notice and also for positions cleared one day after the maturity date.
| Contract | Amount |
| Milling wheat | 15.00 |
| Corn | |
| Rapeseed Oil | |
| Rapeseed | 30.00 |
Set charge for delivery costs
These charges concern approval, analysis and forwarding of samples. They are charged to the buyer and the seller on every contract giving rise to delivery in accordance with the procedures set out by LCH.Clearnet SA.
| Charge | Contract | Amount |
| Approval
(By delivered contract) | Rapeseed | 23.00 |
| Forwarding
(By sample) | Rapeseed | 30.00 |
| Analysis
(By sample) | Rapeseed | 90.00 |
The amount of charges is set on the basis of prices indicated by service providers and costs actually billed in the previous year. Any countervailing or additional analysis will be charged to the involved Clearing Member, on the basis of actual costs, as soon as the bills are received.