100 trading days after the launch of Xetra-Gold by Deutsche Börse Commodities, the physically backed bond has successfully made its mark on the market. Of the 48 exchange-traded commodities listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Xetra-Gold has the highest turnover.

Two new exchange traded bond index funds (ETFs) were launched on Xetra on Tuesday. The db x-trackers II Emerging Markets Liquid Eurobond Index ETF (ISIN LU0321462953) tracks the total return of bonds issued by governmental and quasi governmental issuers from emerging markets.

Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) and Deutsche Börse today announced that bond evaluations from Interactive Data’s Pricing and Reference Data business will be distributed via Deutsche Börse to financial institutions throughout Germany.

Deutsche Börse AG has reorganized its press office: Dr. Frank Herkenhoff (33) is Head of the office with immediate effect; and thus responsible for national and international media activities. Herkenhoff has been working for Deutsche Börse for two years now. He joined from an international communication consultancy where he worked for various companies of the financial sector.

Deutsche Börse achieved its best quarter ever in the first three months of financial year 2008. At €644.5 million, sales revenues were up by 19 percent on Q1/2007 (€543.1 million) reflecting record trading volumes and the full consolidation of the International Securities Exchange (ISE). A further €64.3 million was generated from net interest income from banking business (Q1/2007: €46.1 million).

In April 2008, the value of assets under custody on behalf of customers rose to € 10.7 trillion, a 4 percent rise from April 2007 (€ 10.2 trillion). Securities held under custody in Clearstream’s international business experienced a rise of 6 percent from € 4.6 to € 4.9 trillion and domestic German securities held under custody rose by 3 percent from € 5.6 trillion to € 5.8 trillion.

The international derivatives exchange Eurex will be launching derivatives on the MSCI Russia Index denominated in US dollars as of 23 June 2008. This step extends the existing products on Russian underlyings which were introduced in April 2007. Further, Eurex will add another equity option on OJSC Rosneft as of the same date.

Eurex, the international derivatives exchange, gained an 22 percent increase in turnover volume compared year-on-year to 185 million contracts (April 2007: 151 million contracts). The daily average turnover stood at 8.4 million contracts (April 2007: 8 million contracts). Open interest saw a rise of 13 percent to 141 million contracts per the end of March 2008.

Scoach, the European exchange for certificates and warrants, has been offering trading in around 300,000 products on a new version of the fully electronic trading platform, Xetra, since Monday. This means that, with immediate effect, over 260 banks and brokerage firms – 100 of which are based abroad – have direct access to the world's broadest range of structured products. In the past, these products were traded on the trading floor of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Deutsche Börse opened the General and Entry Standard Conference, for the fourth time in Frankfurt. A total of more than 700 participants are expected to attend the event, which has established itself as Germany’s largest and most successful small and mid-cap conference. With the event, Deutsche Börse brings around 90 companies on the Entry and General Standards together with investors and analysts, serving as a platform for exchanging opinions.

In April the number of trades executed on Xetra was up by 34.7 percent reaching more than 16 million transactions – compared to April 2007 with 12 million trades. Orderbook turnover on Xetra slightly decreased by 1.5 percent year-on-year to €166.5 billion (April 2007: €169.1 billion). On Xetra and the Frankfurt floor €163 billion were turned over in German equities and €8.1 billion in foreign shares.

Deutsche Börse is still European market leader in trading exchange traded funds (ETFs) in the first quarter of 2008. The XTF segment achieved a turnover volume of €31.9 billion in the first three months of 2008 and thus recorded the largest trading volume of all European ETF marketplaces, followed by NYSE Euronext, Borsa Italiana and the London Stock Exchange.