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ACER To Consult On The EU DSO Entity’s Draft Statutory Documents Updated To Include Gas And Hydrogen

Date 06/11/2025

On 4 November 2025, the EU DSO Entity submitted its updated statutory documents to the European Commission and ACER. This revision follows the Hydrogen and Decarbonised Gas Market Package adopted in 2024, which extends the Entity’s membership to natural gas and hydrogen distribution system operators (DSOs).

Bank Of England: Bank Rate Maintained At 4% - November 2025 Monetary Policy Summary And Minutes

Date 06/11/2025

Monetary Policy Summary, November 2025

At its meeting ending on 5 November 2025, the Monetary Policy Committee voted by a majority of 5–4 to maintain Bank Rate at 4%. Four members voted to reduce Bank Rate by 0.25 percentage points, to 3.75%.

BME: MARF Registers A New Commercial Paper Programme From Nextil For €50 Million

Date 06/11/2025

BME’s fixed income market, MARF, has admitted to trading a new Commercial Paper Program by Nueva Expresión Textil, Nextil, for 50 million euros. With this new commercial paper issuance, Nextil is accessing the fixed income markets for the first time by launching an initial issuance program that will allow it to carry out placements flexibly over the next twelve months. Nextil’s shares are listed on the stock exchange and are part of the IBEX Small Cap® index.

EEX Group Monthly Volumes – October 2025

Date 06/11/2025

EEX Group reports its October monthly volumes with the following highlights:

• In October, traded volumes on the EEX Group's Global Power markets remained stable on a year-on-year basis, totaling 1,225.9 TWh, including a 6% Year-on-Year growth in the European Power Spot markets (79.0 TWh), while the European Power Derivatives markets accounted for 818.2 TWh. In addition to short-term market volume records, several futures markets posted significant gains. Notably, the EEX Swiss (+198% YoY) and Belgian (+117% YoY) power derivatives markets continued the trend of growing volumes as seen in previous months this year. In addition, volumes in the EEX Irish Power Futures also rose to the highest monthly level since launch. In terms of EEX’s level of net Open Interest (OI), on the German Power market it has increased both on a Month-on-Month (+1.34%) as well as Year-on-Year (+7.06%) basis.
• The EEX Nordic Power Futures market demonstrated significant growth, with traded volumes increasing by 465% Year-on-Year (2.9 TWh). In line with this, EEX’s level of net OI on this market also increased YoY (+25.62%) as well as compared to the previous month (+56.16%)
• October marked a significant milestone for the EEX Japanese Power Futures market, with a new record volume of 14.9 TWh traded (+91% YoY). In addition, the Year-to-Date volume level in 2025 is almost double compared to that of last year. October saw the introduction of the new EEX Japan Power Fiscal Year Futures, which were off to a flying start with over 1 TWh traded since launch.
• The Group’s Natural Gas markets posted significant growth, with total volume rising 15% Year-on-Year to 708.6 TWh. This increase was both driven by the European Natural Gas Spot markets, totaling 300.1 TWh (+18% YoY) as well as the European Natural Gas Derivatives markets, reaching a volume total of 385.1 TWh (+19% YoY). Market highlights include new records on the British NBP gas spot market (31.2 TWh; +70% YoY) and the Italian PSV gas derivatives market (10.3 TWh; +165% YoY), alongside remarkable YoY growth of over 200% in both the Czech (CZ VTP) and Belgian (ZTP) gas derivatives markets. EEX’s net Open Interest in the Dutch TTF natural gas market has increased by 28.47% YoY.
• In October, GO Futures maintained the trend of recent months with steady increase, and a monthly 4.3 TWh traded.
• Traded volume in the EEX Group Freight Options totalled 9,630 contracts, marking a 73% Year-on-Year growth.

MarketAxess Announces Trading Volume Statistics For October 2025

Date 06/11/2025

MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTX), the operator of a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, today announced trading volume and preliminary variable transaction fees per million (“FPM”) for October 2025.

Deutsche Börse Group And Eurex: Statement On The European Commission’s Decision To Open An Investigation

Date 06/11/2025

Deutsche Börse Group and Eurex took note of the European Commission’s decision to open an investigation into alleged coordination of their conduct in the sector for listing, trading and clearing of financial derivatives in the European Economic Area (‘EEA').

European Central Bank To Join Eurex Repo Market

Date 06/11/2025

• European Central Bank (ECB) to become a participant in Eurex’s centrally cleared repo market in Q1 2026
• The ECB is the sixth central bank to join Eurex's diverse repo ecosystem of over 160 participants

The European Central Bank Joins LCH RepoClear SA

Date 06/11/2025

LSEG today announces that the European Central Bank (ECB) will join LCH RepoClear SA, LCH's market-leading Euro government bond cash, repo trade and GCPlus triparty basket repo clearing service, in Q1 2026. The ECB will diversify its securities lending infrastructure and transfer part of its securities lending activities on its monetary policy portfolios to centrally cleared repo transactions.

October 2025 Figures At Eurex

Date 06/11/2025

• Eurex trading volume down 6 percent in October reflecting calmer market conditions.
• OTC Clearing recorded robust growth, with notional outstanding volumes climbing 41 percent.
• Eurex Repo saw strong October results, driven by a 67 percent jump in GC Pooling transactions. 

LSEG Announces Strategic Partnership With Nasdaq® To Deliver Enhanced Private Markets Data

Date 06/11/2025

LSEG today announced a strategic partnership with Nasdaq to distribute institutional-grade private markets intelligence through LSEG’s Workspace and Datafeeds.