A year after his last Q&A with FO Week, Eurex CEO Andreas Preuss finds himself leading the exchange into new product sectors and new acquisitions. FO Week’s Jim Kharouf sat down with Andreas Preuss at the Swiss Futures and Options Association in Montreux to talk about where the exchange is going with new products, the International Securities Exchange (ISE) acquisition and Eurex technology initiatives.
Year-on-year Eurex has seen strong growth in volume and revenue. Apart from being a reflection on the growing industry how has the exchange itself contributed to these increases in volume?
Apart from strengthening product innovation and distribution capability, the focus of Eurex is on making sure that the Eurex trading and clearing platform is constantly upgraded to the ever increasing market demand. Latency over the past year has been significantly reduced, namely by two-thirds. That alone is a strong enabler to the growth...