The international derivatives exchange Eurex reached a new record month in September with 229.4 million contracts (excluding ISE volume). The previous record month was January 2008 with 207 million contracts. The strong growth of 47 percent y-o-y (Sep 2007: 156 million contracts) is partly attributable to the increased use of exchange-traded derivatives during the recent market crisis.

In September 2008, the number of trades executed on Xetra reached 22.4 million transactions – up 69 percent compared to September 2007 with 13.3 million trades. Order book turnover on Xetra recorded €219.7 billion, up by 19 percent (September 2007: €184.0 billion).

Frankfurt Stock Exchange is running a new stock exchange game from 1 October to 31 December. In this year’s version, participants can trade all of the approximately 400,000 securities listed in Frankfurt and on the pan-European trading platform Xetra on a virtual basis.

Eurex Clearing today announced that it successfully transferred all customer positions and wound down all proprietary positions of Lehman Brothers International (Europe) in an orderly and timely manner. The exposure was at all times fully covered by collateral placed by Lehman Brothers International (Europe) at Eurex Clearing and all clearing house processes worked according to Eurex Clearing’s industry leading standards.

On Friday, September 26 Deutsche Börse received approval by the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) for establishing a representative office in Beijing. Jianhong Wu is assigned to be Chief Representative Officer, the office is to start operations still in this year.

The international derivatives exchange Eurex expands its sector equity index products segment by adding the European real estate industry with futures and options as well. Eurex has launched equity index futures and options on the Dow Jones EURO STOXX Real Estate and Dow Jones STOXX 600 Real Estate supersector indices in line with the new Industrial Classification Benchmark structure (ICB).

Deutsche Börse is internationalizing its Xpect Data offering – expanding it first to include Dutch longevity data. In March, Market Data & Analytics started delivering monthly data on life expectancy and mortality risks in Germany, broken down according to region, year of birth and gender.

The international derivatives exchange Eurex is to extend the fee waiver period on transactions in the Dow Jones Euro STOXX 50 Index Dividend Future until the end of 2008. The move comes in response to member requests to facilitate the migration of over-the-counter dividend swap trades into futures positions via the use of the Eurex OTC Block Trade Facility.

Clearstream, the International Central Securities Depository (ICSD) and part of Deutsche Boerse Group, will hold its annual Global Securities Financing Summit on October 1 and 2 in Luxembourg on the theme "Going Beyond Fragmentation" with Patrick Artus and Norbert Walter, respectively chief economists from Natixis and Deutsche Bank as keynote speakers.

Effective 22 September, new index weights will apply for companies in equity indices of Deutsche Börse. Deutsche Börse released the preliminary weighting figures on Wednesday. An update of the preliminary weighting will be published on Friday. The preliminary data can be downloaded from the Deutsche Börse website. The final figures based on Friday’s Xetra closing prices will be published on the Deutsche Börse website on Saturday.

On 1 October 2008, Deutsche Börse is to launch a new sub-segment for the Open Market. In the future, all initial listings in this primary market segment will be grouped in the First Quotation Board.

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