Tradegate Exchange executed 2.5 million transactions in the first six months of 2011, a 67-percent increase over H1 2010. A total of 2.4 million of these transactions were in equities and ETFs (H1 2010: 1.4 million).
The volume of equities traded was €14 billion, 80 percent higher than for the prior-year period (€7.7 billion). The number of bonds transacted rose by 47 percent to 27,000; 48,000 transactions were made in funds (+41 percent).
Deutsche Apotheker- und Ärztebank and Timber Hill AG are two important national and international trading participants that were connected in the past six months. Prior to that, Deutsche WertpapierService Bank (dwpbank), DZ Bank and WGZ Bank commenced trading on Tradegate, enabling nearly all German savings and cooperative bank customers access to Tradegate Exchange and therefore attributing considerably to lasting turnover increase.