London Stock Exchange Group (LON:LSE) Signs Partnership Agreement with Borsa Istanbul

London, Jan 14, 2015 AEST (ABN Newswire) - London Stock Exchange Group (LON:LSE) announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with Borsa Istanbul, covering derivatives and index products.
Under the terms of the partnership agreement London Stock Exchange Derivatives Market (LSEDM) will offer trading in futures and options on the BIST 30 Index and on leading Turkish stocks. In addition, LCH.Clearnet will provide central counterparty services to LSEDM and its clearing members.

MTS and B2SCAN launch initiative to enhance liquidity in credit market

MTS, one of Europe's premier fixed income trading venues, has launched an initiative with B2SCAN, an aggregator and search engine of bank inventory, runs and axes for the buy-side, which enhances pre-trade information and efficiency for traders on MTS's BondVision platform in Europe.

The agreement between MTS and B2SCAN focuses on pre-trade information and automated trade execution, allowing buy-side traders to identify a bank that is willing to buy or sell a particular bond, or list of bonds and then electronically execute their trades on MTS BondVision. The initiative aims to combine the benefits of pre-trade inventory discovery with automated electronic execution and straight through processing.

Proquote offers direct connection to Turquoise

On 17 December, Proquote, London Stock Exchange's market data and trading system for intermediaries announced a direct connection to Turquoise, the European Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF), giving investors access to over 4,000 shares, Depository Receipts, and ETFs admitted to trading from 18 European countries. The new connection requires no infrastructure upgrade for existing customers, with the Proquote Trading Platform FIX 4.2 interface seamlessly transitioning to Turquoise's FIX 5.0.