European Commodity Clearing
company
European Commodity Clearing (ECC) is the leading clearing house for energy and commodity products in Europe and the central clearing house for the Global Commodity Exchange, part of the European Energy Exchange (EEX) Group. ECC assumes the counterparty risk and guarantees the physical and financial settlement of transactions, providing security and cross-margining benefits for its customers. As part of EEX Group, ECC provides clearing services for EEX, EEX Asia and EPEX SPOT with additional services provided to Power Exchange Central Europe (PXE). In addition, ECC also provides clearing services for the partner exchanges HUPX, HUDEX, NOREXECO, SEEPEX and SEMOpx.
Foundation
ECC was established as a subsidiary of the European Energy Exchange (EEX) in 2006. In this context, EEX transferred its clearing activities to ECC. The aim has been to provide clearing services for partner exchanges as well. As a first step in this direction, on 5 July 2006, the European Energy Exchange AG (EEX) and the Amsterdam-based European Energy Derivatives Exchange N.V. (ENDEX) announced they would cooperate in the settlement of energy trading transactions.
This cooperation agreement constituted ECC's first step towards a clearing house working for several exchanges. ECC acts as central counterparty for the exchanges of EEX group and further partner exchange. Currently, 10 partner exchange use the clearing and settlement services of ECC.
Services
Currently, ECC provides clearing services for the Partner Exchanges EEX Asia, European Energy Exchange (EEX), EPEX SPOT, Hungarian Derivative Energy Exchange (HUDEX), Hungarian Power Exchange (HUPX), Norexeco, Powernext, POWER EXCHANGE CENTRAL EUROPE (PXE), SEEPEX and SEMOpx.
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