TSE News

Revision of the tick size for Dividend Index futures and other notices

Update : Dec. 27, 2010

[Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc.]

1. Tick size for Dividend Index futures

TSE decided to revise tick size for Dividend Index futures scheduled on January 24th, 2011. We hope that it will bring investors more flexibile trading.

Contracts	New	Current
Nikkei 225 Dividend Index futures	0.1 JPY	0.5 JPY
TOPIX Dividend Index futures	0.01 point	0.05 point
TOPIX Core30 Dividend Index futures	0.01 point	0.05 point

2.Suspension of revenue sharing plan for options trading

On July 22nd, 2009, TSE announced that TSE’s revenue from index and individual options trading, 30% for 2010 and 15% for 2011, would be allocated to top10 trading participants of each auction market on a pro-rata basis. However, TSE decided to suspend this program for 2011 trading in view of market condition. As for 2010 trading, we will pay back 30% of our revenue to top10 participants according to the plan.

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