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SGX Asiaclear<SUP>™ </SUP>Clears First Wet FFA Trade

Date 19/05/2006

The Singapore Exchange (SGX) announces that its first wet/tanker forward freight agreement (“FFA”) trade was cleared today by SGX AsiaClear™ .

This first wet OTC FFA trade cleared by SGX AsiaClear™ was a deal in the over-the-counter (OTC) market between traders Trafigura Pte Ltd and ABN AMRO Commodities on the Tanker Clean 4 (TC 4) Route. The trade was brokered by OTC broker, GFI Group and cleared by SGX Clearing Members, ABN AMRO Futures and Fimat Singapore.

The SGX AsiaClear™ OTC clearing facility was launched on 16 May 06. It has since started clearing trades in all three major categories of OTC products in which it offers clearing services: oil swaps, dry bulk FFAs and wet/tanker FFAs.