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BATS Europe Dark Pool Surpasses €100 Million Daily Turnover For 1st Time - Dark Pool Turnover Record Follows One-Day FTSE 100, FTSE 250, SMI And OMXH25 Market Share Records Set Previous Week

Date 21/04/2010

BATS Europe, the technology-leading European Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF), continued to set records this month, crossing the €100 million turnover mark in its Dark Pool for the first time on Tuesday, 20th April with €100,758,149 traded.

Other records of note established in April include new market share highs for the FTSE100 (11.7% on the 12th), the FTSE 250 (8.7% on the 14th), the SMI (9.7% on the 14th) and the OMXH25 (6.1% on the 16th).

“We’re pleased to continue a record-setting year and that our increasing number of participants are benefitting from the great technology and aggressive simple pricing in our Dark and Integrated markets,” said BATS Europe COO Paul O’Donnell.

Mr. O’Donnell will appear at the TradeTech conference Thursday in London as part of the panel “Assessing the Impact of Broker and MTF Dark Pools on Price Formation and Liquidity Discovery”. BATS Europe representatives will also be on hand during the entirety of the event and welcome conference participants to visit the company booth at Stand #18.

BATS Europe’s market share display page, often cited by journalists and analysts for all markets, is available here

. Historical breakdowns by index and venue, including interactive graphs and charts, are available via this llink.