The international derivatives exchange Eurex will further extend its product offering by introducing new equity options on Austrian and Swiss underlyings. Moreover, the exchange will launch more than 100 new single stock futures in December 2007 and January 2008.

Clearstream has successfully launched, its Euro Night-Time Funding Link (ENTFL) service to TARGET2. This service will allow customers to access their liquidity held in TARGET2 Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) accounts and make it available for the settlement of transactions in euro during Clearstream’s night-time processing.

Deutsche Börse has further expanded its XTF segment for listed index funds on the electronic trading platform Xetra. Since Tuesday, two more exchange-traded funds (ETFs) issued by Barclays Global Investors (BGI) have been tradable in XTF.

Deutsche Börse set out the details of its restructuring program, which is designed to allow the company to achieve the efficiency improvements announced in September, on Tuesday. The vast majority of the savings to the sum of around €100 million from 2010 onwards will stem from non-personnel costs.

The IPO of Greater China Precision Components Ltd. on Tuesday was the first IPO of a Chinese company on Deutsche Börse’s Entry Standard.

Clearstream, the international central securities depository (ICSD) within Deutsche Boerse Group, has accepted the Peruvian Nuevo Sol (PEN) as fully eligible currency for settlement and the Zambian Kwacha as a new denomination currency. Both measures took place on Monday the 19th November.

Two companies, Asian Bamboo and MeVis Medical Solutions, went public on the Prime Standard of the regulated market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on Friday, with Asian Bamboo becoming the second Chinese company to be listed on the Prime Standard.

According to the company, FranconoWest AG (FRW) is a real-estate investment trust focusing on residential real estate. As a 100 per cent associated company of listed Franconofurt AG, FRW has not only a powerful financial capacity but also access to the holding’s network of highly specialized real-estate service providers to optimize its portfolio.

Deutsche Börse offers companies the lowest capital costs among the world’s leading stock exchanges. This is the conclusion reached by an independent study presented by Professors Christoph Kaserer (Munich’s Technische Universität) and Dirk Schiereck (European Business School) at the German Equity Forum on Monday.

Deutsche Börse and KfW Mittelstandsbank have jointly opened the German Equity Forum in Frankfurt for the eleventh time. The capital market conference for companies seeking equity capital will run from this Monday until Wednesday.

Clearstream processed 2.71million international transactions in October 2007, a 30 percent rise over October 2006 (2.09 million). Of these transactions, 79 percent were Over the Counter (OTC) transactions and 21 percent were registered as stock exchange transactions.

With the successful transformation of alstia office REIT-AG – the first German REIT –Deutsche Börse has created an independent REIT segment for this securities class as planned, and started to calculate REIT indices. The alstria office REIT-AG is the first real estate company to position itself as a REIT and to be included in the REITs-segment.