On November 17, in close cooperation with Dutch market participants, Deutsche Börse will be expanding its portfolio of products and services for trading in Dutch equities. The aim is to offer exchange-trading participants a tailor-made alternative for trading in Dutch equities on the pan-European trading system, Xetra.
Deutsche Börse is increasing the number of Dutch equities continuously tradable on Xetra from 8 to 25. This means that investors will be able to trade all of the equities in the AEX 25 index, and thus a whole non-German index for the first time, in continuous trading on Xetra. Moreover, the clearing and settlement fees for these Dutch equities are brought down to the same level as applies to German instruments that are not settled through the central counterparty (CCP). In order to facilitate easy access for new participants to the Xetra electronic trading system, Deutsche Börse will refund a large part of the fees and is supporting new customers with their technical connection to Xetra by bearing the costs for the technical connection to Xetra. Eurex, the world's leading derivatives market, has already been trading options on all of the equities in the AEX 25 index since June 2002 and has increased its market share in Dutch options to about 15 percent.