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NYSE Arca Europe to introduce U.S. Equities from Wednesday 21 April
April 20, 2010--NYSE Arca Europe, NYSE Euronext’s European Multilateral Trading Facility, today announced that it will be giving customers access to the 100 most liquid U.S. equities, featuring 86 NYSE listed companies and 14 other listings, from Wednesday 21 April, creating the first truly transatlantic trading platform. NYSE Arca Europe is inviting customers to set up their trading arrangements and will be offering a three-month fee holiday from 21 April.
This service will provide trading firms the first-ever opportunity to trade U.S. securities on a European platform during European trading hours with settlement at DTC. In addition to the initial U.S. stocks, further stocks are likely to be introduced in the near future.
Virginie Saade, Head of NYSE Arca Europe, said “This is an exciting day for NYSE Arca Europe as we lead this pioneering venture into U.S. equities. We have a number of market markers who have committed to offering prices in the U.S. stocks and a business that we will, in time, build with our customers.”
ETFplus new listing
April 20, 2010--Starting from April 22nd 2010, 1 new ETF will be listed on the ETFplus Market
ISHARES DJ EURO STOXX 50 (ACC)
ISIN:IE00B4L5YV07
Local Market :IEUA
Benchmark:DJ EURO STOXX 50
Deutsche Börse in Q1 2010 with Highest IPO Placement volume in Europe
April 19, 2010--Deutsche Börse ranked number one among Europe's established stock exchanges in Q1 2010 in terms of number of IPOs and placement volume, according to the quarterly IPO study by Ernst & Young. The study reports that the total volume of Deutsche Börse’s IPOs by Kabel Deutschland, Brenntag, Tom Tailor and Joyou amounted to US$ 2.24 billion which is higher than any other European stock exchange.
Kabel Deutschland also was among the top 10 IPOs globally. Furthermore, Deutsche Börse welcomed its first Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC), Helikos,in Q1. By comparison, five companies launched their IPOs in London with a total of US$ 1.9 billion on the main market of LSE, while at NYSE Euronext the total volume for the same period was US$ 0.4 billion.
Deutsche Börse’s high liquidity, and strong analyst network for the environmental technology, pharmaceuticals and health care, automotive and technology/software sectors distinguish it as an attractive European listing venue. These qualities have historically provided IPOs with better valuations and lower capital costs, as academic studies regularly show.
Thomas Lenz Stepped Down from the Eurex Executive Board
April 19, 2010--Thomas Lenz has resigned from all Executive Boards of the Eurex Group and also has stepped down from all managing director posts within Eurex. Lenz (51), an Economics graduate, left the company at his own request. As a Eurex Executive Board member he was responsible for Operations.
Thomas Lenz held numerous management positions within the Group since 1997. His responsibilities will be assumed by Executive Board member Jürg Spillman on an interim basis, effectively immediately.
“We regret Thomas Lenz’s decision and would like to thank him for his longstanding contributions and commitment to the Eurex Group. We wish him all the best for his future career”, said Andreas Preuss, CEO of Eurex.
Goldman Sachs charges show need for regulation: EU
April 19, 2010--The fraud charges leveled against top Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs illustrate the need for Europe to act firmly to regulate the murky world of derivatives, a senior EU official said on Monday.
EU Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier believes that "the kind of practises which are alleged to have taken place which, if confirmed... would be illegal and incomprehensible," his spokeswoman said.
Exotic funds cloud ETF promise
April 19, 2010--In a few short years they have risen from obscurity to become one of the hottest investments on the stock market. This week marks the tenth anniversary of the creation of the first exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on the London Stock Exchange. Now there are more than 250 listed in the UK and almost 2,100 are available worldwide, together worth £650 billion.
Deborah Fuhr, head of ETFs research at BlackRock, the investment company that owns the biggest ETF provider, iShares, estimates that the market will grow by 30 per cent this year. “ETFs are one of the greatest financial innovations of the past decade,” she says.
FTSE And PensionDCisions Cast A Spotlight On The UK Defined Contribution Market With New Benchmark
April 19, 2010-- FTSE Group (“FTSE”), the award winning global index provider and PensionDCisions, a specialist in retail investor analytics, today announce the launch of the FTSE PensionDCisions DC Index Series. The new index series is the first objective benchmark for the UK’s Defined Contribution (DC) pensions market.
The index series brings to the market a transparent and robust set of tools to aid objective measurement of the performance and risk profiles of default strategies in UK DC plans. Using FTSE’s world class index design standards and PensionDCisions’ unique data, the family of indices reflect the actual asset allocation decisions made by plan sponsors, trustees and their advisers and the subsequent outcome default solutions deliver to consumers.
The creation of these indices will, for the first time, allow DC plans to benefit from a multi-asset class benchmark which can be incorporated in the construction, selection and monitoring of DC default solutions. Asset allocation and benchmark selection for default solutions have until now occurred largely in isolation; these indices will provide DC plans with an essential context for these decisions and will develop as the market evolves.
Chi-X Europe Announces Record Q1 2010 Trading Statistics Achieving A 32 Percent Increase
Chi-X Europe had a record day exceeding EUR 10 billion; set a record in March with EUR367.5 billion
value traded; reached new market share highs in leading European indices
April 19, 2010--Chi-X® Europe Limited, the largest pan-European equities exchange,
today published its trading statistics for the first quarter of 2010.
While many of the European stock
exchanges experienced challenging trading conditions, Chi-X Europe continues to progress towards its
objective of becoming both the largest pan-European equities exchange and the largest overall by value
traded. According to the Federation of European Stock Exchanges (FESE), Chi-X Europe was ranked
third largest equity exchange by value traded in February 2010.
NASDAQ OMX And Handelsbanken Launch New Exchange Traded Notes In Finland
New Index Launched To Track The 15 Most Liquid Finnish Shares
April 19, 2010--NASDAQ OMX Helsinki, part of the NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NDAQ) today starts trading 20 new Exchange Traded Notes issued by Handelsbanken. This new range of leveraged Bull and Bear certificates includes certificates on the newly launched OMX Helsinki 15 index and the Nordic electricity price.
Lauri Rosendahl, President of NASDAQ OMX Helsinki said: “Handelsbanken is a leading Nordic issuer of structured products and we are very pleased to now be able to offer trading in their new suite of products, including certificates on the new OMX Helsinki 15 index and SHB Power index. The entry of Handelsbanken into the Finnish certificate market will broaden the choice of products available to Finnish investors, and thus help grow the overall popularity of certificates in Finland”.
ETFplus new listings-from April 20th 2010, 15 new ETFs issued by Amundi Investment Solution will be listed
April 16, 2010--Borsa Italiana welcomes on the ETFplus market 15 new ETFs issued by Amundi Investment Solution, the new offer is composed as follow:
- 9 standard ETFs, of wich 4 ETFs on commodities (S&P GSCI Light Energy, S&P GSCI Agriculture Capped Component, S&P GSCI All Metals Capped Commodity, S&P GSCI Non-Energy), 2 fixed income ETFs (Markit iBoxx Euro Liquid Corporate, Iboxx Euro inflation-linked TR), 1 ETF on emerging markets (MSCI Brazil trn index) and 2 ETFs on developed markets (MSCI Europe ex EMU, MSCI World ex EMU);
6 structured short ETFs on fixed income: Short EuroMTS Eurozone Government Broad All Maturities, Short EuroMTS Eurozone Government Broad 10-15, Short EuroMTS Eurozone Government Broad 1-3, Short EuroMTS Eurozone Government Broad 3-5, Short EuroMTS Eurozone Government Broad 5-7, Short EuroMTS Eurozone Government Broad 7-10.
