BATS Trading Limited (BATS Europe), a fully owned subsidiary of BATS Holdings, Inc., has extended the rollout on its Multilateral Trading Facility to include S&P/MIB (Italian) and SMI20 (Swiss) stocks effective Friday, the 28th of November.
"In less than 20 days of live trading, we´ve gained more than 1% of market share in the FTSE100 and quickly made significant progress in other indices," said Mark Hemsley, CEO of BATS Europe. "The acceleration of our rollout timeline moves us closer to a truly pan–European market centre where participants can conduct business in the most efficient and cost–effective manner possible."
BATS Europe is also adding live trading in Nordic securities, including OMX30 (Swedish), OMXH20 (Finnish), OMXC20 (Danish) and OBX25 (Norwegian), beginning on the 5th of December.
Firms interested in connecting to the highly efficient, low latency BATS Europe platform should contact saleseurope@batstrading.com or +44.207.012.8920.
A complete BATS Europe rollout schedule is available at:
In the US, BATS Exchange completed its launch on November 6th and is live in all US–listed symbols. The firm, which began offering US trading in January 2006, accounted for more than $1.1 trillion in notional value in October.
About BATS
BATS Holdings (BATS) is an innovative global financial markets technology company headquartered in the Kansas City, Mo., area with additional offices in New York and London. The BATS platform was launched in January 2006 and, operating as BATS Exchange, Inc., is one of the fastest growing, top tier equity markets in the United States. BATS serves the European market through its London based, FSA–authorised subsidiary, BATS Trading Limited, which operates a Multilateral Trading Facility for European securities. The BATS platform is internally developed by a dedicated core team of market and technology professionals, catering to the needs of the broker–dealer and trading community. BATS "¦ Making Markets Better.
