OREANDA-NEWS. Deutsche Börse:
- Cash markets turnover totals €1.64 trillion in 2015
- ETF segment records second strongest year since introduction in 2000
- December order book turnover increases 12 percent year-on-year

Deutsche Börse cash markets recorded a total of €1.64 trillion in turnover in 2015 (2014: €1.28 trillion), a 28 percent increase over the previous year. Of this amount, €1.51 trillion is attributable to Xetra, €54.6 billion to Börse Frankfurt and €75.3 billion to Tradegate Exchange.

Exchange traded fund (ETF) trading on Xetra achieved €188.9 billion in 2015, the second strongest year since its launch in 2000. Product selection recorded a new high of more than 1,100 tradable ETFs. Xetra thus remains Europe's leading trading venue for ETFs.

Trading volumes December 2015

Order book turnover on Xetra, Börse Frankfurt and Tradegate Exchange across all asset classes stood at €121.8 billion in December (December 2014: €108.9 billion).

Of the €121.8 billion, €112.3 billion were attributable to Xetra (December 2014: €100.7 billion). The average daily turnover on Xetra stood at €5.6 billion in December (December 2014: €5.3 billion). A turnover of €3.9 billion was attributable to Börse Frankfurt in December (December 2014: €4.0 billion). Order book turnover on Tradegate Exchange* totalled approximately €5.6 billion in December (December 2014: €4.3 billion).

Broken down by asset classes, cash market turnover in equities reached about €102.1 billion. Turnover in ETFs/ETCs/ETNs amounted to €17.5 billion. Turnover in bonds was €0.6 billion, in structured products €1.4 billion and in funds €0.2 billion. The electronic trading platform Eurex Bonds traded €3.9 billion (single counting, mainly government bonds) in December (December 2014: €7.3 billion).

Viewed by transactions, a total of 20.0 million trades were executed on Xetra in December (December 2014: 15.6 million).

The DAX security with the highest turnover on Xetra in December was Daimler AG at €6.2 billion. Metro AG led the MDAX equities with €759 million, while Ströer SE topped the SDAX equity index with €261 million, and Dialog Semiconductor plc headed TecDAX with €717 million. The ETF with the highest turnover on Xetra was iShares Core DAX UCITS ETF with €1.6 billion.

Further details are available online in Deutsche Börse’s cash market statistics at www.deutsche-boerse-cash-market.com. For a pan-European comparison of trading locations, see the statistics provided by the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE) at www.fese.eu.

DAX®, MDAX®, SDAX®, TecDAX® and Xetra® are registered trademarks of Deutsche Börse AG.

*For the purpose of statistical comparability data is adapted to the method of counting of regional exchanges.