For the fourth consecutive year, London Stock Exchange Group has been recognised as the leading European exchange for Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) by volume at the Seventh Annual Global ETF Awards.
The award was received by Pietro Poletto, Head of Fixed Income and ETF Markets at London Stock Exchange Group, during an awards ceremony in New York. The event was attended by ETF industry leaders from exchanges, issuers and participants from around the world.
Pietro Poletto, Head of Fixed Income and ETF Markets at London Stock Exchange Group, said:
“We are proud and delighted to receive this award, which shows our leadership in the ETF space at a European level. This is the fourth year in a row we have won this award, which confirms our commitment to our international customer base, and to the growth and effective facilitation of the European ETF markets.”
In the first three months of 2011, there were 947,207 ETF trades worth £26 billion across London Stock Exchange Group’s markets, an increase of 27 and 30 per cent respectively on the same period last year.