The new products bring the total of options on European stock corporations listed on Eurex to 174, of which 37 are on French companies. This serves to further reinforce Eurex’s leading position in European equity options. In the first 11 months of this year, the trading volume in equity options on French companies rose by 85 percent in comparison with the previous year to total around 17,000 contracts traded per day. Open Interest rose to 1.3 million contracts, more than triple the figure at the beginning of the year.
Eurex’s market share in exchange-traded options on French companies is currently around 25 percent.