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An ETF-only Exchange? BATS at Bat

They say you should always shoot for the moon and that is exactly what BATs exchange is doing. MarketMuse update profiles BATS exchange looks to hit it out of Nasdaq’s and the New York Stock Exchange’s parks. The ETF-only exchange out of Kansas City, BATS, is planning on becoming the number one ETF trading venue by 2020 which means passing both the Nasdaq and the NYSE. BATS. This MarketMuse update is courtesy of Tom Lydon’s article “BATS Looks to be Dominant ETF Exchange” on ETFTrends.com. An excerpt from the article is below.

ETFTrends-logo   Most exchange traded products in the U.S. trade on the New York Stock Exchange or the or the Nasdaq Global Market. That is not stopping Kansas City-based BATS Global Markets from the ambitious goal of being the largest U.S. ETF listing venue in three to five years.

“There was a total of 1,411 U.S.-domiciled ETFs at the end of 2014, according to the Investment Company Institute, with more than 1,000 listed by Intercontinental Exchange’s NYSE unit and the balance by Nasdaq OMX Group,” report John McCrank and Jessica Toonkel for Reuters.

To read the entire article from ETFTrends, click here

Bats Lands BlackRock To Start European ETF Exchange;New Regional Bourse Seeks to End ‘Fragmentation’ in Market

wsjlogoCourtesy of WSJ reporters Tim Cave and Sarah Krouse                                                                

Bats Chi-X Europe, the region’s largest equities trading platform, has been endorsed by BlackRock Inc. BLK -1.77% for its new exchange-traded fund platform.

From next month, the fledgling stock exchange will list two of BlackRock’s iShares ETFs as secondary listings: the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Ucits ETF andiShares MSCI World Minimum Volatility MINV.LN -0.11% Ucits ETF.

BlackRock is the first to list ETFs on Bats Chi-X Europe, which received a stock exchange license from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority in May. Until now Bats has been a secondary equities trading venue, but the exchange license allows it to diversify into primary listings for companies, derivatives products and ETFs.

Trading in European ETFs is highly fragmented, with issuers forced to list their products across a number of different exchanges. In Switzerland, for example, issuers are not permitted to market their products in the country without a local listing.

Bats is attempting to solve the issue of “fragmentation, transparency and liquidity” by creating a pan-European ETF listing venue, according to Mark Hemsley, chief executive of Bats Chi-X Europe, which is operated by BATS Global Markets, Inc. Continue reading