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Design Review Session: Physical Commodities. FpML Commodities Working Group. Scope. Commodity Underlyer Vanilla Fixed/Floating Swaps Basis Swaps and Options (European, American, and Asian style) "Shaped" Swaps/Basis Swaps and strips of Options were also covered. Physically-settled trades
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Design Review Session: Physical Commodities FpML Commodities Working Group
Scope • Commodity Underlyer • Vanilla Fixed/Floating Swaps • Basis Swaps and Options (European, American, and Asian style) • "Shaped" Swaps/Basis Swaps and strips of Options were also covered. • Physically-settled trades • Swaps • Bullion Forwards FpML 4.5 Current work (expected FpML 4.6 WD 3)
Physically-settled trades • Asset support: • Natural Gas • Oil • Electricity • Bullion (for Forwards) • The following structures vary between all these commodities: • Delivery • Product • Delivery periods • Quantities
Asset Support: details Yes – supported (Yes) – partially supported No – not supported ISDA/GTMA - supported documentation (e.g. ISDA Master Agreement and Commodity Definitions or Grid Trade Master Agreement)
Product representation • New physical leg, adding it within the existing commoditySwap product element • Fixed price transaction = xxxPhysicalLeg + fixedLeg • Floating price transaction = xxxPhysicalLeg + floatingLeg • New commodityForward product element • fixedLeg + bullionPhysicalLeg Note: xxx gets replaced by oil, gas, electricity, etc.
Schema Review • oilPhysicalLeg • gasPhysicalLeg • electricityPhysicalLeg
Schema Review • bullionPhysicalLeg
Open Questions • Naming of product element: oilProduct, gasProduct, etc. instead? • Use of xsd:choice for picking the appropriate legs • Delivery offsets for electricity are different than regular offsets (prevailing time): businessCenterTime or commodity specific structure for this?