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Think of an exclusive poker game where the minimum bet is close to $1 million. The stock-trading version, dark pools that host blockbuster trades, are pulling in major money in Europe.
Their rise has been swift.
On June 24, 2016 - the day after the Brexit vote - just 3% of trades on the London Stock Exchange s Turquoise shares platform were carried out in its dark pool via so-called block trades, mega-bets of around $800,000 or more.
European stock traders place their blockbuster bets in the dark
By Saikat Chatterjee and Thyagaraju Adinarayan
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Think of an exclusive poker game where the minimum bet is close to $1 million. The stock-trading version, dark pools that host blockbuster trades, are pulling in major money in Europe.
Their rise has been swift.
On June 24, 2016 - the day after the Brexit vote - just 3% of trades on the London Stock Exchange s Turquoise shares platform were carried out in its dark pool via so-called block trades, mega-bets of around $800,000 or more.
Fast forward about four years to Nov. 9, 2020 - another momentous day for markets, when Pfizer was the first COVID-19 vaccine developer to announce it had produced an effective shot - and 58% of trades were executed in these giant blocks.
INSIGHT-European stock traders place their blockbuster bets in the dark Reuters 1 hour ago
By Saikat Chatterjee and Thyagaraju Adinarayan
LONDON, June 3 (Reuters) - Think of an exclusive poker game where the minimum bet is close to $1 million. The stock-trading version, dark pools that host blockbuster trades, are pulling in major money in Europe.
Their rise has been swift.
On June 24, 2016 - the day after the Brexit vote - just 3% of trades on the London Stock Exchange s Turquoise shares platform were carried out in its dark pool via so-called block trades, mega-bets of around $800,000 or more.
Fast forward about four years to Nov. 9, 2020 - another momentous day for markets, when Pfizer was the first COVID-19 vaccine developer to announce it had produced an effective shot - and 58% of trades were executed in these giant blocks.
Amsterdam displaces London as Europe’s top stocks centre after Brexit
Amsterdam has displaced London as Europe’s biggest share trading centre after Britain left the European Union’s single market, and picked up a chunk of UK derivatives business along the way, according to data published on Thursday.
Stock exchanges in the Dutch capital traded 9.2 billion euros ($11.15 billion) a day in January, compared to London’s 8.6 billion, according to the Cboe exchange, which operates in both cities.
This compares with an average of 17.5 billion euros traded daily in London during 2020, when Frankfurt was second with 5.9 billion and Amsterdam sixth at 2.6 billion, Cboe said.
Read more about Brexit effect: Amsterdam topples London as Europe s share-trading hub on Business Standard. The City of London had long warned of the consequences of leaving the EU single market without adequate provisions for trade in services