Dutch firms appeased by Liffe assurances

08 Sep 2003

Amsterdam options market participants last week welcomed Euronext Liffe's decision to delay migration of the market from the Switch platform and plough extra money into enhancing Connect.

Liffe said it would spend an additional €4.6m increasing the quote capacity of Connect, and delay the migration from Switch until September next year (see FO Week Vol 8 No 34). The move followed a period of increasing unrest in some quarters of the Amsterdam trading community, anxious that Connect would not be...

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