A Trading Member is a TFX market participant that has been approved Trading Qualifications from TFX, and trades financial futures on the TFX market. Trading Members can directly trade on TFX without the brokerage of another party. TFX's current Trading Members are from a wide range of areas, including banks, securities firms, central cooperative financial institutions, credit associations, insurance companies, commodities brokers, and foreign banks and securities operating in Japan. Varieties of participants show our market's openness towards a wide range of customers.

There are six types of trading qualifications.
When a new product is listed, TFX will either expand the types of futures products tradable within the existing qualifications, or create a new qualification, depending on the necessities of the new product.

With regard to trading qualifications of exchange forex margin contracts and exchange equity index margin contracts, please contact FX Products Retail Marketing Group and Equity Index Products Retail Marketing Group respectively.
(*)TFX suspended Yen Interest Rate Swap Futures (¥ Swapnote^TM) as of 20 March 2007.

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1. A trading member places orders on the TFX market through the TFX trading system. For brokering of customers' trades, the trading member must be a licensed financial futures broker.
2. Offset notification is made when the executed trade is for settling an existing open interest position.
3. Mark-to-market on open interest is carried out daily using each day's settlement price, and the difference is paid/received between the clearing members and TFX. The required margin amount is also calculated daily, and deposits are added to or withdrawn between the clearing members and TFX.

At present, Clearing Members are Trading Members who hold clearing qualifications and become TFX's counterparties for financial futures clearing businesses. Specifically, Clearing Members go into a direct credit-debt relationship with TFX upon a financial futures trading execution, and settle funds and pay/receive margins with TFX.
Trading members which do not possess clearing qualifications ("Non-Clearing Members") designates a Clearing Member ("Designated Clearing Member"), which in place of the Trading Member undertakes the above clearing operations with TFX.

Our Clearing Members are composed of banks, securities firms, central cooperative financial institutions, credit associations, and foreign banks and securities who satisfy the specified financial requirements.

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1. Please contact TFX for procedures to obtain trading qualification. TFX will explain the necessary procedures and requirements, as well as the necessary technical environment for trading.
2. Turn in a Trading Qualification Application Form to TFX.
3. TFX will examine the application based on the specified qualification.
   

   Trading Qualification Requirements

   • A corporation having a principal or liaison office in Japan.
   • Having human resources capable of financial futures trading.
   • Having good financial standing.

4. If the trading qualification applicant does not obtain clearing qualification, a Clearing Agreement must be entered into with a Designated Clearing Member.
5. After trading qualification is approved, the necessary procedures (system set-up, payment of trading registration fee, etc.)are to be taken, after which trading becomes possible on the TFX market.

Trading Registration Fee

System Set-Up Costs

With regard to sytem set-up costs of exchange forex margin contracts and exchange equity index margin contracts, please contact FX Products Retail Marketing Group and Equity Index Products Retail Marketing Group respectively.

*Terminals and printers can be independently purchased if they fulfill required specifications.
*LAN and power outlet construction expenses are not included.

Running Costs
Below is the fee for the most basic set-up.

*The above running costs are not applicable in case of self-purchased terminals.

Exchange Fee

Market Entry Deposit: Deposit to TFX in case of Trading Member's default.

With regard to market entry deposits of exchange forex margin contracts and exchange equity index margin contracts, please contact FX Products Retail Marketing Group and Equity Index Products Retail Marketing Group respectively.