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Clearing

Overview

As an Approved Clearinghouse by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Abaxx Clearing is the designated clearinghouse for Abaxx Exchange. As the central counterparty of all executed trades, Abaxx Clearing mitigates potential counterparty credit risk for Clearing Members and guarantees settlement.

Key Services

Abaxx Clearing provides the following clearing services such as trade management, position management, risk management and collateral management such as:

  • Facilitating requests for collateral deposit, withdrawal and substitution.
  • Conduct clearing cycles throughout the trading day to calculate margin requirements (e.g., variation margin, initial margin, and additional margin) and value collateral.
  • Monitor and manage the settlement of Clearing Member financial obligations (e.g., margin, guaranty fund, physical delivery)
  • Provide daily trade, position, collateral, pricing and risk management reports for post-trade activity.
  • Oversee the delivery process of physically settled futures contracts by ensuring the transfer of the physical commodity from the seller to the buyer upon contract expiration, in accordance with the contract specifications and delivery timelines.
  • Facilitate post-trade clearing requests including, but not limited to, Give-up, Take-up, Trade Allocation, Position Transfers and Gross Position Adjustments.

Operational Time

Clearing and Settlement Timings (SGT)

Time Activity
09:00

Clearing starts

 

Position management window starts

 

Collateral deposit window starts

10:30 Deadline to fulfil end of day margin call
11:30 Position reporting deadline
13:00 Collateral withdrawal window starts
16:00

Intraday clearing cycle

 

Collateral withdrawal window ends

17:00 Collateral deposit window ends
18:00 Deadline to fulfil intraday margin call
00:30 Position management window ends
02:30 Completion of end of day clearing cycle

Currency Holiday

During a currency holiday, any settlement and/or collateral management transactions denominated in that currency shall be settled on the next business day which is not a currency holiday. Clearing Members shall make any necessary prior arrangements to ensure that they are able to meet financial obligations that fall due on a holiday.

 

USD Holiday Schedule for Year 2025

Holiday Date Day of the Week
New Years Day 01-Jan-2025 Wednesday
Martin Luther King Jr. Day 20-Jan-2025 Monday
President Day 17-Feb-2025 Monday
Memorial Day 26-May-2025 Monday
Juneteenth 19-Jun-2025 Thursday
Independence Day 04-Jul-2025 Friday
Labour Day 01-Sep-2025 Monday
Columbus Day 13-Oct-2025 Monday
Veterans Day 11-Nov-2025 Tuesday
Thanksgiving Day 27-Nov-2025 Thursday
Christmas Day 25-Dec-2025 Thursday

 

USD Holiday Schedule for Year 2026

Holiday Date Day of the Week
New Years Day 01-Jan-2026 Thursday
Martin Luther King Jr. Day 19-Jan-2026 Monday
President Day 16-Feb-2026 Monday
Memorial Day 25-May-2026 Monday
Juneteenth 19-Jun-2026 Friday
Independence Day ( Observed)  03-Jul-2026 Friday
Labour Day 07-Sep-2026 Monday
Columbus Day 12-Oct-2026 Monday
Veterans Day 11-Nov-2026 Wednesday
Thanksgiving Day 26-Nov-2026 Thursday
Christmas Day 25-Dec-2026 Friday

 

 

 

 

 

Reportable Levels

Position Limit, Position Accountability, and Reportable Level

Product Contract Contract Code Reportable Level Table Position Limits (Spot Month)* Position Accountability (Any/All month)
LNG contracts LNG Gulf of Mexico Futures GOM 25 lots 350 lots 1,750 lots
LNG contracts LNG North Pacific Asia Futures NPA 25 lots 350 lots 1,750 lots
LNG contracts LNG Northwest Europe Futures NWE 25 lots 350 lots 1,750 lots
Carbon Credit contracts Jurisdictional Baseline-Related REDD+21-25 Carbon Mitigation Outcome Unit Futures RD1 125 lots 1,000 lots 5,000 lots
Carbon Credit contracts CORSIA Phase 1 Labelled Carbon Futures CP1 125 lots 1,000 lots 5,000 lots
Nickel Sulphate contracts Nickel Sulphate Singapore  NSS 25 lots 100 lots 500 lots
Lithium Carbonate contracts Lithium Carbonate Singapore  LCS 25 lots 500 lots 2500 lots
Lithium Carbonate contracts Lithium Carbonate Rotterdam  LCR 25 lots 500 lots 2500 lots
Lithium Carbonate contracts Lithium Carbonate Baltimore LCB 25 lots 500 lots 2500 lots

*effective during the last 10 Trading Days for a maturing contract

Post Trade Reports

The following reports are available to Clearing Members via SFTP:

  1.  Cash Transactions
  2.  Collateral Holdings
  3.  Collateral Transactions
  4.  Delivery Transactions
  5.  Fee Transactions
  6.  Holdings
  7.  Instruments
  8.  Instrument Prices
  9.  Margin Calculations
  10.  Odd Lot Transactions
  11.  Derivative Transactions

Settlements Banks

  1. DBS Bank Ltd
  2. Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore) Limited
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