New Record For IDEM, Borsa Italiana Derivatives Market

IDEM, Borsa Italiana derivatives market, reached yesterday 15 April 2009 a new record for a single day's trading , with 563,041 contracts traded during the day. The previous record was 451,655 contracts, reached on 8 May 2007.

More in details, stock futures registered their historical record with 396,250 standard contracts. The previous record was 335,740 contracts on 8 June 2006.

Raffaele Jerusalmi - Director of Derivatives and Fixed Income Markets, London Stock Exchange Group , said: “These numbers confirm the effectiveness of our new pricing scheme which was introduced on 2 March 2009 in order to create new efficiencies for intermediaries improving IDEM development at international level."