BATS Global Markets (BATS) has reported May volume, market share, and monthly highlights.?
This includes the following:?
- In the U.S., BATS reported 20.1% U.S. equities market share in May, up from 10.4% a year ago. BATS Options reported 3.8% market share, in line with one year ago.
- Average daily options matched volume was 554,009 contracts.
- The five most actively-traded options classes on BATS Options during May were the Standard & Poor?s Depositary Receipt ETF Trust (SPY), iShares Russell 2000 Index ETF (IWM), PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 ETF (QQQ), Apple Inc. (APPL), and Facebook Inc. (FB).
- On May 1, BATS Chi-X Europe successfully operated from its disaster recovery site for the first time as part of the company?s Business Continuity Planning (BCP) process.
- On May 29, BATS unveiled new pricing and a lead market maker (LMM) program for its U.S. Listings business. With the new pricing, exchange-traded products (ETPs) that trade more than 400,000 shares per day will be eligible for a free listing on BATS Exchange.
- In the U.S., BATS continued to make progress on the Direct Edge integration and on May 5 announced the availability of member connectivity to EDGA and EDGX certification environments within the Equinix NY5 data center beginning June 2, 2013. The connection request form and additional information is available at bats.com/edgeintegration and BATS will also share updates via its Twitter feed @BATSGlobal.