The technical migration of NOS Clearing into NASDAQ OMX has been successfully completed according to plan.

The positions in Freight, Fuel Oil, Iron Ore, Seafood, and Elcert contracts at NOS Clearing ASA have been successfully migrated into the NASDAQ OMX Genium INET system in preparation of the merger of NOS Clearing ASA into NASDAQ OMX Clearing AB on Monday, April 7th 2014.

All clearing members migrating from NOS Clearing must meet their margin requirements and default fund requirements by 10:30 CET on Monday, April 7^th 2014.

Contact areas – Market Operations

From Monday April 7^th, the following contact areas shall be used for production matters  

Exchange Market Place (07:30-19:00 CET)
Support for trade reporting, block trades, positions related queries
mpsc@nasdaqomx.com +47 675 28037 

Clearing Operations (07:00-20:00 CET)
Support for trades, positions, reports, settlement, affirmation, expiration
clearing@nasdaqomx.com  +46 8 405 6880                                     

Collateral Management (09:00-17:30 CET)
Support for collateral, default fund, CMS Web, margin requirement, withdrawal of collateral
CMS@nasdaqomx.com +46 8 405 6881

Member services (08:00-18:00 CET)
Support for system access, users, login details, passwords, broker appointment
ms.geniuminet@nasdaqomx.com  +46 8 405 6660

Technical support (00:00-24:00 CET)
Support for technical integration and general disturbances and issues with system

CW1/CW2: technicalsupport@nasdaqomx.com +46 8 405 6750
CMS Web: bbsupport@nasdaqomx.com +46 8 405 7400

About NASDAQ OMX

The inventor of the electronic exchange, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., fuels economies and provides transformative technologies for the entire lifecycle of a trade - from risk management to trade to surveillance to clearing. In the U.S. and Europe, we own and operate 26 markets including 3 clearinghouses and 5 central securities depositories supporting equities, options, fixed income, derivatives, commodities, futures and structured products. Able to process more than 1 million messages per second at sub-40 microsecond average speeds, our technology drives more than 70 marketplaces in 50 developed and emerging countries, powering 1 in 10 of the world’s securities transactions. Our award-winning data products and worldwide indexes are the benchmarks in the financial industry. NASDAQ OMX is home to more than 3,300 listed companies with a market value of over $8 trillion, whose innovations shape our world. We give the ideas of tomorrow access to capital today. Welcome to where the world takes a big leap forward, daily. Welcome to the NASDAQ OMX Century. To learn more, visit www.nasdaqomx.com. Follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/NASDAQ) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx). (Symbol: NDAQ and member of S&P 500)

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.

NOS Clearing ASA is the leading clearing house for the freight market and a specialist clearing provider to the commodities markets. The company is wholly owned by the NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. The clearinghouse, which is situated in Oslo, has more than 300 members.

NASDAQ OMX Clearing AB 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.nasdaqomx.com/commodities

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