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ArticleΒ 16a - Post-trade risk reduction services

1.

For the purposes of 2014, post-trade risk reduction services are services that meet all the following conditions:

(a)

they are provided by a third-party service provider on the basis of non-discretionary rules that are set in advance;

(b)

the post-trade risk reduction exercise is accepted in full and, as a result, the participants in that exercise are not able to choose which trades to execute under the post-trade risk reduction exercise;

(c)

they have the purpose of achieving a reduction of risk in each derivatives portfolio submitted to the post-trade risk reduction exercise by the counterparties to the derivative transactions;

(d)

they are market-risk neutral, within the tolerances set by the counterparties to the derivative transactions submitted to the post-trade risk reduction exercise;

(e)

transactions that result from a post-trade risk reduction exercise do not contribute to price formation.

2.

For the purposes of 2014, post-trade risk reduction services shall include compression services, rebalancing services, and basis risk optimisation services.