Mondo Visione Worldwide Financial Markets Intelligence

FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index:

New Market Maker Appointments On Boston Options Exchange

Date 30/08/2004

Over the next three weeks, BOX will add nearly 600 new market maker appointments on the existing 249 options classes. The new appointments have been assigned to both the existing 27 BOX Participants which presently act as market makers on BOX plus an additional ten new Participants who are in the process of meeting the requirements to act as BOX Market Makers. These new appointments represent an increase in BOX quoting capacity of roughly 20%.