On Friday, 18 January 2008, a new daily record was achieved in trading of EUA futures on the market for emission allowances operated by European Energy Exchange AG (EEX) and Eurex AG: 301,000 EUAs were traded. In January, a total of 2,081,000 EUAs has already been traded.

For the first time in the Collateral Management sector, Clearstream is offering collateral givers the opportunity to simulate their trades and actively manage via a dynamic allocation simulator, CmaXDirect.

Deutsche Börse continues to expand its XTF segment for exchange-traded index funds. With effect from today, two new exchange-traded funds (ETFs) from the issuer Lyxor International Asset Management will be tradable in XTF.

In December €151 billion were turned over on Xetra and on the floor of Börse Frankfurt – a rise of 20 percent year-on-year (December 2006: €125,7 billion). Thereof €142.2 billion were traded on Xetra gaining 22 percent year-on-year (December 2006: €115.8 billion) and €8.7 billion on the floor (December 2006: €9.8 billion). German equities accounted for €141.6 billion, foreign equities comprising €6.7 billion.

15 first-time listings in Frankfurt from China and Russia/CIS/ Successful launch of REITs segment in November27 December 2007.

Average daily volume increased 25 percent to 7.5 million contracts / Segment equity index derivatives with strongest growth (plus 55 percent) / Turnover of 118 million contracts in December (plus 12 percent).

Eurex and International Securities Exchange Holdings, Inc. (ISE) today announced that Eurex has completed the acquisition of ISE, following the SEC’s approval of the merger. Effective upon the open of the U.S. markets today, ISE common stock will be suspended from trading on the NYSE and will be delisted shortly thereafter.

Borzen, the Slovenian power exchange, and Eurex, the international derivatives exchange, today announced that they will jointly create a spot power market for the broader South Eastern European region – SouthPool. The new company will be launched as of January 2008.

Effective 27 December, new index weights will apply for companies in the 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.

CFF, the Central Facility for Funds, Clearstream’s new post trade solution for investment funds, has opened up to the Belgian market with two leading institutions, RBC Dexia investor services Belgium S.A. and KBC Bank NV. Both became new clients of CFF as of December 17.

Deutsche Börse has further expanded its XTF segment for listed index funds on the electronic trading platform Xetra. Two new EasyETF products issued by AXA Investment Managers and BNP Paribas have been tradable in the XTF segment since Friday. Both funds are based on credit derivative indices.

Clearstream processed 2.70 million international transactions in November 2007, a 24 percent rise over November 2006 (2.18 million). Of these transactions, 76 percent were Over the Counter (OTC) transactions and 24 percent were registered as stock exchange transactions.