Dear Recipient
The following exchange information was distributed earlier today:
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no 04/12 NASDAQ OMX Commodities Genium INET to go live 5 March 2012
NASDAQ OMX Commodities Genium INET will be launched 5 March 2012 (ref. exchange and clearing information no. 19/11, 27/11, 43/11 and 49/11). The weekend 3-4 March will feature mandatory activities for all members. Exchange and IT information with overviews of the launch preparation activities, launch weekend plan and roll back framework will be distributed in the beginning of February. Additional activities and plans will be updated through exchange notices or member IT notices if necessary.
Member extranet
All documents will be published under the member extranet under a separate section dedicated to the go live documents. Please contact your key account manager for a username if do not yet have one.
Exchange launch communications
For each member, the Genium INET Commodities project manager/main migration contact is regarded as the launch manager. The launch weekend contact and e-mail list contains all contacts earlier received from all members, Independent Software Vendors, market data vendors, service bureaux and data centres. If you want additional persons being included in the exchange launch communications, please send the name of the contacts to commodities.geniuminet@nasdaqomx.com including e-mail address and phone number at the latest 9 February.
Launch preparations
- Members should use the coming weeks to connect from their upcoming Genium INET Commodities production environments towards the NASDAQ OMX Genium INET production environment, which is available for telnet testing. Please note that it will not be possible to log on to the production environment before the go live weekend. NASDAQ OMX Commodities recommends that these tests are done as early as possible. Please verify your applicable protocols and report your results to commodities.geniuminet@nasdaqomx.com no later than 13 February. Follow this link for the IP addresses and ports document for the production environment.
- FIX users are reminded of the need to order production fix sessions and production passwords as they will not be migrated over from Ext4. Please contact memberservices@nasdaqomx.com for more information.
- If you need GCF production data from go live and onwards, please send a request to operator@nasdaqomx.com. If you are a FIX protocol user, this can be relevant for you.
- Members that wish to use CW2 over extranet are kindly asked to contact memberservices@nasdaqomx.com
- The test system is available every workday from 08.00 to 15.30 CET until go live. Maintenance window as usual between 06.00-12.00 (CET) each Wednesday. Please see this link for details on connectivity.
Communication during the launch weekend
For communication NASDAQ OMX will use a combination of e-mail list contacts, exchange/IT notices and updates on the Genium INET member extranet. NASDAQ OMX may also contact individual members for confirmation by mail or phone.
Subscribe to Genium INET migration newsletters
It is highly recommended that all key contacts (Project Managers, main trading contacts, and main back-office contacts) within member organizations (and Independent Software Vendors organizations) subscribe to the Genium INET newsletters (also known as IT notices). Please follow this link to subscribe to newsletters: www.nasdaqomxcommodities.com/news/subscription
NASDAQ OMX Support
Support will be available during the launch weekend including technical support (technicalsupport@nasdaqomx.com), Trade Support and Member Services (memberservices@nasdaqomx.com). Contact information and availability is published in the launch weekend plan and at the Genium INET for Commodities Member extranet.
NASDAQ OMX Commodities reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to postpone the launch if deemed necessary.
For further information, please contact NASDAQ OMX Commodities:
Trading, Key Account Management (general questions regarding this notice, access to member extranet, help with Trading Workstation):
desken@nasdaqomx.com, phone +47 6752 8037
Genium INET Member Readiness (general questions regarding Genium INET project, registrations to project activities, escalation of project issues):
commodities.geniuminet@nasdaqomx.com
Clearing (clearing applications, reports):
clearing.market@nasdaqomx.com, phone +47 6710 8430
Technical helpdesk (technical queries regarding this notice, integration support, reporting of errors):
technicalsupport@nasdaqomx.com
Member Services (logons, passwords etc.):
memberservices@nasdaqomx.com
Press contact:
Sara Aadnesen, Director Communication, phone +47 6752 8080/+47 9060 0759
About NASDAQ OMX
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world's largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, with more than 3,500 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its U.S. listings market, NASDAQ OMX Nordic, NASDAQ OMX Baltic, NASDAQ OMX first North, and the U.S. 144A sector. The company offers trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and exchange-traded funds. NASDAQ OMX technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries. NASDAQ OMX Nordic and NASDAQ OMX Baltic are not legal entities but describe the common offering from NASDAQ OMX exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius.
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About NASDAQ OMX Commodities
NASDAQ OMX Commodities is the brand name for the NASDAQ OMX Group’s worldwide suite of commodity related products and services. The NASDAQ OMX Commodities offerings include power, natural gas and carbon emission markets and clearing services. NASDAQ OMX Commodities is a trademark of the NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.
NASDAQ OMX Commodities Europe is the trade name of NASDAQ OMX Oslo ASA which is authorized as a commodity derivatives exchange by the Norwegian Ministry of Finance and supervised by the Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority. All trades with NASDAQ OMX Commodities Europe are subject to clearing with NASDAQ OMX Clearing.
NASDAQ OMX Clearing is the trade name of NASDAQ OMX Stockholm AB which is authorized and supervised as a multi-asset clearinghouse by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority in Sweden as well as authorized to conduct clearing operation in Norway by the Norwegian Ministry of Finance.
For more information, visit www.nasdaqomxcommodities.com.
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