Friday, February 4, 2011

BATS global markets off to solid start in 2011

BATS global markets off to solid start in 2011 : BATS Global Markets (BATS) have reported volume numbers for the month of January, including the following:

* BATS Europe reported record overall average daily turnover of €2.73 billion, up 73.0% on the same month last year. The BATS Europe Dark Pool earned record average daily turnover of €135.6 million, up 159.0% on the same month last year.

* BATS Europe recorded new consolidated monthly market share records in London's FTSE 100 (12.0%), the Swiss SMI (10.1%), Amsterdam's AEX (7.2%), Frankfurt's MDAX (5.9%), Brussels' BEL20 (5.9%), Paris' CACNext20 (5.3%) and the STOXX Europe 50 (7.9%), as well as 6.8% in Europe overall. The Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) also earned six one-day market share records during January, including 14.6% in the FTSE 100 on Jan. 20.

* The BATS U.S. equities exchanges, BATS BZX Exchange and BATS BYX Exchange, combined for average daily matched volume of 845.5 million shares, representing 10.4% of all U.S. cash equity share volume for the month of January. In January 2010, BATS had 10.3% of the U.S. equities market.

* BATS BZX Exchange, formerly known as BATS Exchange, recorded average daily U.S. matched volume of 717.1 million shares, representing 8.8% of all U.S. cash equity share volume for the month.

* BATS BYX Exchange, the company's second U.S. equities exchange, recorded average daily U.S. matched volume of 128.4 million shares, representing 1.6% of all U.S. cash equity share volume for the month. This represents an increase from 1.3% in December for BYX, which launched in October 2010.

* BATS Options recorded 4,546,549 matched U.S. contracts in January, representing 1.3% overall matched market share, including a one-day matched volume record of 396,397 contracts on Jan. 28. Touched market share for the month, the standard industry measurement, was 1.5%. The matched figure nearly doubled December's 0.7%.

* In January, BATS Options rolled out new pricing and an innovative NBBO Setter Rebate program, which provides a rebate of $.50 per contract to all members that set the NBBO and get an execution and trade an average of 20,000 contracts per day on the BATS Options platform.

* The BATS 1000 Index (BATSK) increased 2.0% in January ending the month at 14,529.78. The Index offers a listings-neutral, broad snapshot of the U.S. equities marketplace by tracking the performance of 1,000 securities classified in 10 important industry sectors.
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