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Market Makers ManualZagreb, July 2020
Contents:1INTRODUCTION . 32FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS . 33ORGANISATIONAL, PERSONNEL AND TECHNICAL MARKET MAKING REQUIREMENTS . 33.13.23.34GRANT OF MARKET MAKER STATUS . 54.14.24.35ORGANISATIONAL MARKET MAKING REQUIREMENTS . 3PERSONNEL MARKET MAKING REQUIREMENTS . 4TECHNICAL MARKET MAKING REQUIREMENTS . 4APPLYING FOR THE GRANT OF MARKET MAKER STATUS . 5DECIDING ON MARKET MAKER APPLICATIONS . 5MARKET MAKING CONTRACT . 6MARKET MAKING REQUIREMENTS AND PARAMETERS. 75.1 MARKET MAKERS IN SHARES OR ETF UNITS . 75.1.1Average daily turnover . 75.1.2Criteria for share or ETF unit liquidity classification . 75.1.3Maximum spread . 75.1.4Minimum volume. 85.1.5Methodology of calculating quoting time . 95.2 MARKET MAKERS IN STRUCTURED PRODUCTS . 96MARKET MAKING TERMINATION AT THE REQUEST OF THE MEMBER FIRM. 97TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS . 108ANNEXES. 10MARKET MAKING CONTRACT . 17MARKET MAKING CONTRACT FOR STRUCTURED PRODUCTS . 22ANNEX TO THE MARKET MAKING CONTRACT FOR STRUCTURED PRODUCTS . 272
Pursuant to Article 4(1) and Articles 51 through 70 of the Exchange Rules (hereinafter: the Rules),this Manual regulates the following: 1financial instruments in respect of which Exchange members may engage in marketmaking;organisational, personnel and technical market making requirements;grant and termination of the market maker status at the request of the member firm;andmarket making parameters.IntroductionMarket maker is an Exchange member which, under a contract concluded with the Exchange,assumes special obligations with regard to maintaining liquidity of a particular financialinstrument for a period of time during the continuous trading session by simultaneously issuingquotes.2Financial InstrumentsFinancial instruments in respect of which a member firm may engage in market making are thefollowing: shares, structured products and ETF units.3Organisational, Personnel and Technical Market Making Requirements3.1Organisational Market Making RequirementsAny member firm intending to engage in market making must:1. ensure that its market making does not affect the performance of regular tradingactivities;2. establish a permanent and effective system to prevent and control the exchange ofinformation so that the provision of specific services and activities by the member firm(e.g. executing orders for the account of a client etc.) does not affect its market makingor constitute market abuse within the meaning of the Regulation (EU) No 596/2014;3. establish a permanent and effective system to prevent a conflict of interest which mayarise in the course of market making and while performing other tasks at the memberfirm, and which may harm client interests;4. keep records of the market maker’s quotes and transactions concluded based on suchquotes.3
3.2Personnel Market Making RequirementsA member firm intending to engage in market making must ensure that the (natural) personperforming such tasks at the member firm is trained for engaging in market making, i.e. that sucha person meets the following criteria: has a valid brokerage licence in accordance with the Capital Market Act (hereinafter: theCMA), or meeting the broker criteria as laid down by the Member State of the memberfirm’s domicile 1;completes education for the use of the XETRA trading system;completes market making education organised by the Exchange.The member firm should apply for education of the person to engage in market making2 to theExchange. The application is to be submitted to the ZSE Academy to the e-mail address:akademija@zse.hr.Education consists of lectures to be delivered in the manner, at the time and place to be specifiedby the Exchange.On completing education, the participant will be issued by the Exchange an appropriatecertificate of the education completed and the participant’s data will be entered in a database ofpersons who have completed market making education.Before performing market making tasks for the first time, the person who has completededucation is required to undergo appropriate testing in a designated XETRA simulationenvironment.To enable testing for the performance of market making tasks, the member firm should requestaccess to the test environment in the application for the grant of market maker status 3.3.3Technical Market Making RequirementsA member firm intending to engage in market making must have a trading system which enablesthe performance of market making tasks.1A natural person will be deemed to meet that criterion if possessing a licence for work as an investmentadviser in accordance with the CMA or meeting the criteria for investment adviser, as laid down by theMember State of the member firm’s domicile.2Annex 2 to this Manual3Annex 1 to this Manual4
4Grant of Market Maker Status4.1Applying for the Grant of Market Maker StatusA member firm intending to engage in market making must apply to the Exchange for the grant ofmarket maker status4.The application for the grant of market maker status must include at least the following:1. information on the type of financial instrument in respect of which the member firmintends to engage in market making;2. information on the date on which the member firm plans to commence marketmaking;3. type and brief description of the trading system the member firm plans to use toperform market making tasks;4. statement of the market maker that it fully complies with the organisational,personnel and technical requirements for engaging in market making laid down bythe CMA, these Rules and other acts of the Exchange.If the member firm intends to engage in market making through a natural person, in theapplication for the grant of market maker status that member firm is required to specify data foreach natural person who will perform market making tasks and a list of financial instruments inrespect of which that person is to perform market making tasks.4.2Deciding on Market Maker ApplicationsAn incomplete or irregular application for the grant of market maker status will be returned tothe member firm for correction and completion.If the application is complete and regular, the Exchange will proceed to determine whether themember firm complies with the market making requirements.The Exchange has the right, in the course of the verification procedure and at any time duringwhich the member firm engages in market making, to request from the member firm to presentor enable the examination of documents and procedures it may deem necessary for determiningwhether the member firm complies with the market making requirements.If the Exchange finds that the member firm does not comply with market making requirements, itwill instruct the member firm to undertake measures necessary for compliance within anappropriate time frame, if possible. If the member firm fails to comply even on expiry of theappropriate time, the Exchange will adopt a resolution refusing the application for the grant ofmarket maker status.If the member firm complies with all the requirements laid down for market makers, the memberfirm and the Exchange will conclude a market making contract.4Annex 1 to this Manual5
4.3Market Making ContractA member firm which complies with all the requirements laid down for market makers willconclude a market making contract5 with the Exchange.A member firm which complies with all the requirements laid down for market makers instructured products will conclude a structured products market making contract 6 with theExchange. An annex to the structured products market making contract will be concluded inrespect of each individual structured product of the same issuer following the conclusion of theprincipal contract.The member firm will be granted market maker status by concluding a market making contractwith the Exchange.The fact that the member firm has been granted market maker status in respect of a particularfinancial instrument will be published by the Exchange on its website and notified to otherExchange members. Similarly, the Exchange will publish on its website the date from which themember firm will commence market making in a particular financial instrument, provided that ithas informed the Exchange of such a date.The member firm is required to inform the Exchange of the date from which it will commencemarket making at least 2 (two) trading days before exercising the rights and performing theobligations of market maker.5Annex 46Annex 56
5Market Making Requirements and Parameters5.1Market Makers in Shares or ETF UnitsThe market maker in shares or ETF units is required to issue bid and ask quotes for 60 % of thetime during continuous trading on each trading day, where: the quoted buy and sell volume must be equal to or higher than the minimum volumelaid down in this Manual; andthe quoted price range must be lower or equal to the maximum spread laid down in thisManual.For the purpose of determining the minimum quoted volume and the maximum spread, shares orETF units are assigned to liquidity classes based on data on their average daily turnover. Theliquidity classification is done at the beginning of each quarter on the basis of trading data for theprevious quarter.5.1.1Average daily turnoverThe calculation of the average daily turnover of a particular share or ETF unit will take intoaccount the turnover made within the order book. It will not take into account block trades orOTC transactions.5.1.2Criteria for share or ETF unit liquidity classificationFor the purpose of determining market making parameters, shares or ETF units are assigned tothree liquidity classes according to the following criteria:Class/category Average daily turnover1 HRK 250,0002 HRK 100,00035.1.3Maximum spreadThe maximum spread is the maximum permitted difference between bid and ask quotes enteredby the market maker.The maximum spread that a market maker must enter in the trading system is determined as apercentage, and is shown in the following table:Class/category123Maximum spread2%5%7%7
5.1.4Minimum volumeThe minimum volume of quotes to be issued by the market maker in the trading system is shownin the table below:Class/categoryMinimum quotedamount (in HRK)HRK 35,000HRK 15,000HRK 10,000123The minimum volume of shares or ETF units is expressed in units. The Exchange will calculate theminimum volume corresponding to the minimum quoted amount once a month, according to thefollowing formula:Q Limit/Pwhere:Q minimum volume of share or ETF unit expressed in units;Limit minimum quoted amount expressed in the kuna for the class to which a share or an ETFunit belongs;P average price of the share or ETF unit on the last day of the previous month.The minimum volume Q of particular shares or ETF units in a market maker quote is rounded upto the first next higher integer.Once a month, the Exchange will calculate the minimum volume of shares or ETF units in amarket maker quote to be provided to the market maker and will also publish it on its website.8
5.1.5Methodology of calculating quoting timeThe market maker’s quoting time is calculated as a portion of the total duration of trading.The following will not to be taken into account in calculating the market maker’s quoting time:1. opening auctions and closing auctions;2. temporary trading suspension of the financial instrument which is subject to market making;3. any time of the market maker’s temporarily relief from its obligations, in accordance with theprovisions of the Exchange Rules.5.2Market makers in structured productsThe issuer of a structured product is required to designate a market maker which must be anExchange member.The market maker in a structured product is required to issue bid and ask quotes on each tradingday.The minimum market maker’s quoting time, the maximum spread and the minimum quotedamount will be specified by the marke
The market maker in shares or ETF units is required to issue bid and ask quotes for 60 % of the time during continuous trading on each trading day, where: the quoted buy and sell volume must be equal to or higher than the minimum volume laid down in this Manual; and the quoted price range must be lower or equal to the maximum spread laid down in this Manual. For the purpose of determining the .
