A spike in demand for single stock futures (SSFs) in Europe over the last six months has seen Eurex enter the market and Euronext Liffe announce last week the introduction of 300 contracts onto its B-Clear wholesale trading system.
According to the two exchanges, changes in the marketplace have seen traders increasingly look to trade SSFs in 2006, prompting the two of them, as the only pan-European SSF exchanges, to bolster their offerings.
Ralf Dreyer, head of product design for equity derivatives at Eurex, told FO Week that his exchange had...