• WM1: 440RWF 10
  • WM2: 435RWF 10
  • WM3: 430RWF 15
  • WM4: 420RWF 10
  • BS1: 630FRW 10
  • BS2: 620FRW 10
  • BS3: 610FRW 10
  • BS4: 600FRW 20
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East Africa Exchange (EAX) is a commodity exchange

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Risk Management

All business are subject to risks. In an effort to minimise and mitigate risks, East Africa Exchange (EAX) has establised mechanisms and strategies for the management risks in order to overcome a wide range of challenges in its warehouse operations, trading and settlement systems. Risks that may occur are associated with EAX trading activities, warehouse receipt processes and systems, deals creations errors, errors in data capturing and reading, documentation misrepresentation, commodities loading and outloading processes. ect..

Key risks managed by the exchange are:

  1. Legal risks
  2. Operational risks
  3. Credit risks
  4. Market risks

From legal and compliance perspectives, EAX team implements capital markets rules and regulations in all stages of the business from members registration to access to all EAX warehouse services and facilities, trading systems, cash settlement and commodities delivery. EAX rules and regulations are strictly followed to ensure trust, integrity, transparency and proper members conducts.

Commodity Trading

EAX operates a fully automated trading platform where participants can buy and sell products from the convenience of their location of choice, or...
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Collateral Management

One of the greatest challenges that smallholder farmers face in East Africa is access to finance. This is because farmers cannot guarantee the pr...
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Trade Settlement

Settlement is done by:       1) Delivery of commodity Seven Days after Trade (T+7)       2) Transfer of of cash...
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Risk Management

All business are subject to risks. In an effort to minimise and mitigate risks, East Africa Exchange (EAX) has establised mechanisms and strategi...
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Electronic Warehouse Receipt

Electronic warehouse receipt is an online record representation of a physically stored good at any certified East Africa Exchange (E.A.X) warehou...
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Warehouse Services

Use of warehouses EAX warehouses are where EAX value-addition begins. Farmers are able to bring their grains to the warehouse in order to recei...
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