Bats, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, today welcomed a new iShares fund to the Bats ETF Marketplace. The iShares MSCI Argentina and Global Exposure ETF (Bats: AGT) seeks to track the investment results of the MSCI All Argentina 25/50 Index (the Underlying Index), which is designed to measure the broad Argentina equity universe. The…
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Bloomberg and Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, have announced they plan to provide Bloomberg customers with the ability to use their respective Approved Publication Arrangements (APA) to fulfil MiFID II transparency reporting requirements. Under MiFID II, market participants are facing a steep increase of reporting tasks they need to manage, for…
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30 Issuers, 161 Funds Now Listed on Bats in the U.S. Bats, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, welcomed a new Cambria fund to the Bats ETF Marketplace. The Cambria Tail Risk ETF (Bats: TAIL), the sixth ETF listed by Cambria with Bats, seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing in a portfolio…
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Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, today announced the launch of new benchmark indices for ten additional European markets. Bats now offers real-time, high-quality and low-cost alternatives to those provided by the incumbent index providers across all major European markets. The new Bats Indices covering ten markets include: Bats Austria 20 Bats…
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Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, just announced it has expanded its trade reporting facility, BXTR, to offer a new service that enables buyside firms to meet their trade reporting obligations under MiFID II. The new service, an assisted reporting model, allows buy-side firms to enable their brokers to submit trade reports on…
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Bats, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, welcomed StrongVest Global Advisers, LLC as a new issuer to the Bats ETF Marketplace. The StrongVest CWA Income ETF (Bats: CWAI), the firm’s first ETF, seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing its assets in a diversified portfolio of corporate bonds with varying maturities and equity…
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CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) just announced that the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) will be the first of the CBOE Holdings exchanges to migrate onto the Bats technology platform, with an expected switch-over on Sunday, February 25, 2018. The migration of the C2 and CBOE options exchanges will follow, with those dates to be announced…
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Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, today announced it has launched the Bats Brexit 50/50 Indices, two new benchmark indices designed to reflect the impact of Brexit on UK companies. The two indices – the Bats Brexit High 50 and Bats Brexit Low 50 – are designed to act as barometers for…
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Bats, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, today welcomed Saba Capital Management, L.P., as a new issuer to the Bats ETF Marketplace. The Saba Closed-End Funds ETF (Bats: CEFS), and Saba’s first ever ETF, is an actively managed ETF that seeks to generate high income by investing in closed-end funds trading at a discount…
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Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company and the region’s largest equities exchange operator, and BIDS Trading, L.P. announced today the successful buy-side focused launch of Bats LIS (Large in Scale), a new block trading service for the European equity market, on Friday, 17 March 2017. The platform, which rolled out to sell-side participants…
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