• Order ID and Trade ID Enhancements – these fields will be redefined to be alpha/numeric. The length of the fields will not change. This will allow for a greater number of orders and trades.

• Persistent/Non-Persistent Orders and Quotes – persistency provides reloading of orders automatically in case of system outage. The down side is that there is an impact on system performance at firm site. Non-persistency feature will now be provided.

• Pre-Trade Risk Protection – firm can define limits for individual trader subgroups:

o Maximum order size

o Order frequency within time interval

o Limit quantity of working orders/quotes

• Stop Button Facility – firms will have the capability to:

o Reject order and quote entry

o All open orders and quotes deleted

o Trade or position adjustments will be rejected.

o GU activity pending transactions can’t be approved by counterparty

• Firm can perform functions, such as Pre-Trade Risk Protection, by product or by product group. Currently product groups are not defined.

• Eurex can now HALT immediately a contract with no open interest.

• Client Order Identification – firms can assign user order reference numbers to orders.

• Change of Default Password – release 10.0 will no longer support the use of a default password. Members will be required to change the password during the first logon to the Eurex system.