Europe Archive

First-quarter figures for block trading venue Liquidnet have shown institutional investors in Europe again trading equities in size. The firm's Europe chief attributed the resurgence to regional stabilisation. read more>

Investors will abandon short-term trades amid a "dramatic" market contraction if the EU fails to exempt the repo market from its proposed financial transaction tax, according to Ulf Bacher, head of the agency cash management platform at prime broker Newedge. read more>

Liquidity in derivatives instruments on Deutsche Börse's Eurex platform could shift to competitors NYSE Liffe and Nasdaq's new NLX venue as a new German law requires high-frequency trading firms to register with national regulator BaFin. read more>

The Vienna Stock Exchange has played down rumours that it is in discussions with the Warsaw Stock Exchange about a possible merger. read more>

The European Securities and Markets Authority has excluded turnover derived from ancillary services in the calculation of annual fees trade repositories will pay as new rules governing OTC derivatives in Europe through the European market infrastructure regulation approach. read more>

Only a third of asset managers are operationally prepared for changes to post-trade processing of OTC derivatives in Europe, and many see costs for compliance rising, new research has shown. read more>

Widely-applauded European rules on exchange-traded funds have supported their continued popularity among institutional investors, new data has revealed. read more>

The Italian financial transaction tax has caused a lull in broker crossing network activity and a rise in trades reported to exchanges and multilateral trading facilities, figures show after a full month of implementation. read more>

Poland's Warsaw Stock Exchange will operate new shorter trading times when it migrates to a new trading system on 15 April. read more>

The London Stock Exchange Group has announced plans to launch a swaps trade repository and taken another step towards its acquisition of LCH.Clearnet as plans to bolster its derivatives business progress. read more>