Category: Exchanges

March 08, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Scila for real time market surveillance goes live at Börse Düsseldorf

Börse Düsseldorf, the German exchange, has gone live with Scila Surveillance for real time market surveillance covering equities, funds and equity linked products (ETFs, ETNs). Scila Surveillance is a powerful and highly flexible solution developed and delivered by the independent trade surveillance technology solution provider Scila in Stockholm. Börse Düsseldorf will use our market surveillance…

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SGX announces trading volumes
March 08, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

SGX consults on proposed equities market structure adjustments

Singapore Exchange (SGX) is consulting the public on proposed adjustments to the equities market structure aimed at addressing market conditions, while balancing the diverse objectives and interests of different segments of participants in the market ecosystem. The three proposed adjustments are: Increasing the minimum bid size for stocks and relevant securities trading in the S$1.00…

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March 07, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

TMX Group releases February trading statistics, a new record for Montréal Exchange

TMX Group Limited (TSX:X) today announced February 2017 trading statistics for its marketplaces – Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Alpha Exchange (Alpha), Montréal Exchange (MX) and NGX. MX achieved a new open interest record for Options on Three-Month Canadian Bankers' Acceptance Futures (OBX) of 315,410 contracts on February 17, 2017. To see the…

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STOXX Low Carbon products licensed to Italian bank IMI
March 07, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

STOXX licenses next generation of low carbon indices to Scandinavian asset owner

STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group’s index business, and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, today introduced the STOXX Climate Impact and STOXX Climate Awareness Indices. This next generation of low carbon indices incorporates the CDP climate change scoring methodology which evaluates companies based on their progress in the transition…

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March 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Deutsche Börse taps the US commodity market

The commodity arm of Deutsche Börse Group, European Energy Exchange (EEX), announced that has reached an agreement in principle with the shareholders of Nodal Exchange Holdings, LLC – a US regulated futures exchange, headquartered in Virginia – on the purchase of all shares. Therewith Nodal Exchange will become part of Deutsche Börse Group. The acquisition…

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March 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Deutsche Börse AG launches trading of money market funds with shorter settlement period of T+1

Five BlackRock Institutional Cash Series plc money market funds are tradable on Xetra From today on money market funds with a shorter settlement period of T+1 are tradable via Xetra, Deutsche Börse just announced. These products are therefore the first class of securities for which transactions are settled on the trading day following order execution.…

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March 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Clearstream and Chinese CSD cooperate on Chinese Bond Market

The China Central Depository and Clearing Company (CCDC) and Deutsche Börse's Clearstream Banking S.A. have entered a partnership. The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) marks the official launch of the cross-border cooperation. It will give full consideration to the characteristics of the Chinese Interbank Bond Market (CIBM), while respecting the market’s current regulatory…

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March 06, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

LSE sees Revenues up 14% in 2016, still bullish on merger with Deutsche Borse

London Stock Exchange Group Plc (LON:LSE) reported its preliminary results for 2016 showing nice growth in the business. And, the company remains fairly optimistic about its proposed merger with Deustche Borse, despite recent regulatory hurdles being thrown in the way, as well as the uncertainty surrounding the implementation of Brexit. Overall, the LSEG saw Total Income…

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Eurex volumes
March 02, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Eurex records strong volumes in VSTOXX products in February

Investors rely strongly on VSTOXX derivatives to hedge their exposure to equity and credit markets at Eurex, Europe’s largest derivatives exchange, Deutsche Börse announced earlier today. VSTOXX is the Europe’s volatility benchmark. It reflects investor sentiment uncertainty by measuring implied volatility of the EURO STOXX 50. In February, the Average Daily Volume reached 119,838 contracts.…

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