BATS Global Markets (BATS) today reported March volume, market share, and monthly highlights:
- BATS reported 19.9% U.S. equities market share in March, up from 10.6% a year ago.
- BATS Options reported 4.1% market share, up from 3.8% one year ago.
- In Europe, BATS Chi-X Europe reported overall market share of 20.4%. BATS’ pan-European trade reporting facility, BXTR, set a new monthly market share record of 57.0% in March, according to BATS and Thomson Reuters. Additionally, BXTR posted a one day record in excess of €19 billion of transactions on 26th March.
- BATS successfully operated its U.S. equities exchanges, BZX and BYX, and BATS Options, from its disaster recovery site on March 13 as part of its Business Continuity Planning (BCP) process.
- Bryan Harkins, Executive Vice President and Head of U.S. Markets at BATS, was honored by Crain’s New York Business’s prestigious “40 Under Forty” list, which recognizes New York professionals under 40 years of age who have made outstanding achievements in their personal and professional lives.
- BATS continued to make progress on the Direct Edge integration and information is available at bats.com/edgeintegration and BATS will also share updates via its Twitter feed @BATSGlobal.
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