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Eurex rates volumes collapse on Iran volatility

Surging yields, options hedging activity and revamped incentive schemes drive record volumes at Ice

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Trading in euro-denominated interest rate futures reverted dramatically back to London when government bond yields surged at the outbreak of the Iran war on February 28, dealing a blow to efforts by the European Union to bring this activity onshore. 

Over 10 million futures contracts linked to the Euro short-term interest rate (€STR) and Euribor were traded on March 3, more than four times the

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