This is a guest post by Cornelius Müller, who works for Eurex / Deutsche Börse. It appeared first on brokerdealer.nl. This isn’t an academic paper, as you may expect the author is a supporter of a certain derivatives exchange. Still, he has valid points, nice charts and a great overview of the European option competition between exchanges.Read more
The greatest joy of competition for customers is a drop in prices. It has taken a while, but finally we’re getting somewhere. Euronext announced today a fee rebate program for AEX index options (daily, weekly and monthly options). The fee for index options above a certain threshold will be lowered with 100%. No more expenses onRead more
Effective today, TOM will give free access to their real-time derivatives market data to clients of Interactive Brokers and the Dutch brokers working with IB’s platform (Lynx, Todays, Traders Only). Other brokers already offered the data for free. According to the press release, investors can save as much as €37 per month. Nice – but it’sRead more
Half a year ago I reported on the clash between DeGiro and Binck, with respect to the not-so-smart order router from TOM. See DeGiro trashes TOM and Flash Boy Binck ignores law of holes. Few months later TOM decided to shut down their stock trading venue. Assumed that would be the end of the story.Read more
The old exchange Euronext has been releasing monthly turnover statistics every month. This year the number of transactions in the equity market has seen a sharp rise compared with first quarter of 2014. Euronext reported a rise of 29% in traded value. It’s a bull market, so the same number of shares traded represent aRead more
