With Xpect Data, Deutsche Börse is expanding its Market Data & Analytics department to include data from the new insurance risks asset class. Deutsche Börse will deliver data on life expectancy and mortality risk via Xpect Data. In addition, Deutsche Börse will introduce indices, under the name Xpect-Indices, which will serve as securitization for life and pension insurance risks or as the basis for other financial products.

Clearstream has successfully launched its new generation of post-trade infrastructure processing environment, delivering real-time transaction processing across the full instruction life cycle throughout the daytime settlement period.

In February the value of assets under custody on behalf of customers rose to € 10.5 trillion, a 6 percent rise from February 2007 (€ 10.0 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 5 percent from € 5.4 trillion to € 5.7 trillion.

The Hochiminh Stock Exchange has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Deutsche Börse Group on Friday in Frankfurt. The partners want to co-operate in order to facilitate the development of the securities markets in Vietnam and Germany and will explore bilateral business opportunities.

The International Securities Exchange (ISE) announced today that its Depth of Market Feed for options is now available through PrecISE Trade, its proprietary front-end trading application. ISE’s Depth of Market Feed is a real-time data feed that provides the aggregated volume of all quotes and orders available at each of the top five price levels for options that trade on ISE.

European Energy Exchange (EEX) and the international derivatives exchange Eurex are further expanding their cooperation in CO2 trading. As of 14 April 2008, options will also be available on the EEX’s EUA future. The new EUA options, in addition to the existing EUA future, expire yearly from 2008 to 2012, they will be tradable between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. CET.

The leading international derivatives exchange Eurex has entered into agreements to increase its stake in the Leipzig based European Energy Exchange AG (EEX) by up to 20.85 percent to then 44.07 percent for a consideration of €55.15 million.

On Tuesday, 26 February 2008, a new daily record was achieved in trading of EUA futures on the market for emission rights operated by European Energy Exchange AG (EEX) and Eurex with 600,000 EUAs. The previous daily record was set on 21 February 2008 with 485,000 EUAs.

Deutsche Börse expanded its international DAXglobal index family on Monday, by adding eleven new China indices. The DAXglobal China index tracks the 40 largest and most liquid companies in China. In addition, 10 sector indices called DAXglobal Sektor, complement the DAXglobal China index.

Deutsche Börse Group concluded financial year 2007 with new records for revenues and earnings. According to the preliminary figures published by the company on Tuesday, sales revenue climbed by 18 percent to €2,185.2 million in 2007 (2006: €1,854.2 million). The company earned a further €230.8 million in net interest income from banking business (2006: €150.7 million).

ISE International Securities Exchange: The Osaka Securities Exchange Co., Ltd. (OSE) and International Securities Exchange Holdings, Inc. (ISE) today announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), in which the two exchanges agreed to build a cooperative relationship as the first step towards the formation of a joint venture and the launch of a new, jointly owned trading platform that promises to revitalize the Japanese equity options market.

Capita Financial Administrators Ireland (CFAI) Limited, part of the Capita Financial Group has become the first of three Irish transfer agents (TA) to join the Central Facility for Funds (CFF), Clearstream’s post trade solution for investment funds.