Michael Zollweg, Head of the Trading Surveillance Office (TSO) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and Eurex Germany, announced earlier this week that he will leave this public position at the end of 2019 at his own request. Zollweg has been Head of the TSO for 20 years and leaves Deutsche Börse AG on the best…
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Deutsche Börse’s cash markets just announced their turnover for the month of August. The cash markets generated a rise in turnover by 4% MoM to €130.2 billion last month (€130.0 billion in 2018 and €124.8 billion in July 2019). €117.4 billion were attributable to Xetra (€117.9 billion in 2018), the average daily Xetra trading volume…
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Clearstream has today completed the acquisition of Ausmaq Limited from National Australia Bank (NAB). LeapRate reminds that the company reached an agreement with NAB to acquire its Sydney-based specialist managed funds services business Ausmaq Limited back in May this year. Clearstream's expansion to the Australian funds market and the future set-up of Ausmaq will be…
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Deutsche Börse has released the volume report for its cash markets, which generated a turnover of €116.0 billion in June (€153.6 billion same period in 2018). Actually Xetra's €106.3 billion turnover (2018: €142.1 billion) brought the ADV to €5.6 billion. Trading volume on Börse Frankfurt was €2.3 billion (2018: €3.4 billion) and on Tradegate Exchange…
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Xetra is Deutsche Börse’s digital stock exchange. The very first blockchain development company to be listed on Xetra is Advanced Blockchain AG, a German BaaS provider (blockchain-as-a-service). The news comes from DGAP and Cointelegraph. This is a hug accomplishment for Advanced Blockchain AG, as Xetra is an all-electronic trading system that is used in over…
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Deutsche Börse announced earlier today that the transatlantic consumer and wholesale bank offering products and services across personal, corporate and investment banking, credit cards and wealth management, Barclays (LON:BARC), has joined EurexOTC Clear to support Eurex in expanding its distribution network in the U.S. Barclays is now the first European bank to offer Eurex’s OTC…
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Deutsche Börse just released its cash markets volumes for April. The cash markets generated a turnover of €120.9 billion, down 7% MoM (compared to €127.2b in 2018 and €130.3 billion in March 2019). €107.8 billion of which were attributable to Xetra (€117.1b in 2018), bringing the average daily Xetra trading volume to €5.4b. Börse Frankfurt…
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Malta Stock Exchange announced that it now goes live on Deutsche Börse's T7 trading technology, enabling market participants in Malta to benefit from the T7 trading technology and synergies through lower development and maintenance costs. Malta Stock Exchange has been using the Deutsche Börse's Xetra trading system, but has decided to make a change this year.…
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Deutsche Börse and Commerzbank have successfully executed the first legally binding repo transaction settlement using distributed ledger technology. The test transaction was part of a collaborative proof of concept initiative built on a delivery versus payment model to determine whether blockchain networks can be used in securities settlement. The transaction was executed through the generation…
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Deutsche Börse has today launched a new crucial indicator for ETF investors known as iXLM (intraday Xetra liquidity measure), which displays the changes in an ETF’s trading costs during the trading session each day. The new indicator will allow investors to pinpoint period when the costs of trading an ETF were at their lowest so…
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