NYSE Euronext
NYSE Arca is NYSE Euronext’s premier listing venue for Exchange Traded Products. Its unique market structure, state of the art electronic trading platform, consulting expertise, and innovative solutions drive its business around the world. As a result, sponsors have chosen to list over 1,300 of their Exchange Traded Products on NYSE Arca. In addition, NYSE Arca is the first electronic market to offer issuers a Lead Market Maker program, designed to encourage provision of liquidity and contributes to some of the best prices and depth in the Exchange Traded Product marketplace. NYSE Euronext is also a leading developer of proprietary indices. Our goal is to provide investors and issuers with benchmarks that measure key segments. Additionally, we provide indices that measure a wide variety of groups along the entire equity spectrum as well as other market sectors.
NYSE Liffe US is NYSE Euronext's multi-asset class US futures exchange. Our fully electronic, transparent market offers liquidity in equity index futures, interest rate futures and precious metals futures and options. In September 2009, NYSE Liffe U.S. began listing futures based on benchmark MSCI Equity Indices. Today, we list mini MSCI futures on twelve different indices, including MSCI EAFE Index and MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Futures on MSCI Indices provide efficient investment tools to capture or hedge global equity market exposure, with the safety and transparency of a centrally cleared market. With strong customer demand, volume has grown steadily and in August 2011, Open Interest in the family of mini MSCI Index futures surpassed the 100,000 contract milestone. Effective September 7th, BIC (Block Trade at Index Close) transactions became available on NYSE Liffe US, giving institutions the ability to tie the price of a Block Trade transaction in mini MSCI Index futures to a prospective closing value of the underlying index. In March 2011, NYSE Liffe U.S. launched interest rate futures including Eurodollar futures, 2 year, 5 year, 10 year Treasury Note futures, U.S. Treasury Bond futures, and Ultra U.S. Treasury Bond futures. All NYSE Liffe U.S. interest rate products are cleared at New York Portfolio Clearing (NYPC). This innovative clearing house provides market participants unique capital and operational efficiencies. NYSE Liffe U.S. utilizes the state-of-the-art LIFFE CONNECT® trading platform, offering superior levels of performance and functionality to our global clients.
