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BATS Europe Sets January Records, Trades €1.6 Billion -New Highs Reached In Integrated, Dark And Xetra Markets; Earns New One-Day Market Share Records With 10% In FTSE 100, 9.9% FTSE MIB And 5.0% Overall

Date 19/01/2010

BATS Europe, an innovative and technology-leading European Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF), set a one-day record for notional value traded of more than €1.6 billion overall on Friday 15th January.

The fast-growing MTF also recorded notional value highs of nearly €73.0 million in the BATS Europe dark pool and the Xetra market with €311.2 million.

On 6th January, BATS Europe recorded new one-day market share records with 10.0% of the FTSE 100, 9.9% of the FTSE MIB, and 5.0% of the European market overall.

“We are pleased to start 2010 by achieving significant market share milestones and continuing to attract more trading volume,” said Mark Hemsley, CEO of BATS Europe. “With a strong pipeline of new participants coming onboard, we are looking forward to further significant increases in the liquidity on BATS Europe this year.”

Launched in October 2008, BATS Europe recently reported notional value traded on its platform increased more than 300% during 2009, from €228 million in January to €917 million in December. BATS Europe also set a fourth consecutive pan-European monthly market share record in December with approximately 4.0%.

BATS Europe’s market share display page is at http://www.batstrading.co.uk/market_data/market_share/index/ and historical breakdowns by index and venue, including interactive graphs and charts, are available at http://www.batstrading.co.uk/market_data/venue/.