Exchanges Exchanges in Europe face increasing competition. Smallerexchanges may come under pressure to cooperate with one of the largerexchanges and adopt its trading system. It is, therefore, important to evaluate the attractiveness of the two dominating continental European trading systems,Euronext and Xetra. Though both are anonymous electronic limit order books, there are important differences in […]
Market Model Xetra is the pan-European electronic trading system of Deutsche Börse AG for cash market trading in equities and a variety of other instruments including exchange traded funds (ETFs), bonds, warrants and subscription rights. It has been introduced in November 1997 in order to create a transparent and efficient way of automated trading […]
Xetra provides a functionality for the trading of large blocks within a crossing framework. Block Crossing offersthe following new features and functional enhancements:§ trading of large blocks on the basis of midpoints of the spread provided by a liquid reference market, e.g.,the Xetra DAX, MDAX and NEMAX segments § introduction of the trading model crossing§ […]