Full name | Marché à Terme International de France, SA |
Company type | Société anonyme |
MATIF SA is a French private corporation engaged in two main fields of business:
- It is an exchange for futures
- It is an clearing house
Examples of traded products:
- Interest rate futures
- Options on the Euro notional bond
- Options on the five year Euro
- Options on European rapeseed
- Futures on European rapeseed
- Futures on rapeseed meal
- Futures on European rapeseed oil
- Futures on milling wheat
- Futures on sunflower seeds
- Futures on corn
- Futures on the 30-year Eurobond
- Futures on the 2-year E-note
- Futures on the CAC 40 Index
- Futures on the STOXX Europe 50
- Futures on the EURO STOXX 50 (an index similar to STOXX Europe 50, but limited to the Eurozone)
When the Paris Bourse was merged with Euronext NV to form Euronext Paris, MATIF SA was absorbed. Certain derivatives formerly traded on the MATIF are now traded on the Euronext affiliate LIFFE Connect, an electronic trading platform run by the London International Financial Futures Exchange.
MATIF as a legal term
MATIF is also the word used by the French regulators for any market where futures contracts are traded under French Law.