Welcome to the LuxXPrime Newsletter!

Welcome to this year’s first edition of the LuxXPrime newsletter! As we continue to grow our LuxXPrime selection of securities, we bring you the latest statistics, insights from industry experts on where the market is heading, and a glimpse of the underlying investment projects of sustainable securities available for trading on LuxXPrime.

So, as the first quarter draws to a close, let's check out the latest news and developments on all things trading!

LuxXPrime is a window on the trading platform of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE), dedicated to retail-sized bond trading, and was launched in September 2019. What started off as a limited selection of 260 securities has now expanded and counts more than 1,000 securities, including 160 green, social and sustainability bonds.

To secure firm prices, competitive spreads and liquidity on LuxXPrime, LuxSE teamed up with EUWAX AG, a subsidiary of Börse Stuttgart, which acts as the Prime Liquidity Provider. In this way, LuxXPrime meets the needs of brokers, asset managers and investors who are looking for attractive prices for smaller-sized trades in fixed-income securities.

2020 has been a year unlike any other, a year full of challenges and hardships. However, it was also an extraordinary year for LuxXPrime, the dedicated window for retail-sized trading on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.

Our Product & Client Development Manager, Luigi Campa, reflected on the past year and shared his thoughts on what comes next for LuxXPrime.

Read the interview in full here.

As we approach the end of the first quarter of 2021, we checked in with Jens Furkert, Head of Bond Trading at EUWAX AG, LuxXPrime’s Prime Liquidity Provider, to learn more about what 2021 has in store for bond trading.
 
In this short interview, the market expert highlights rising yields, the fear of inflation and illustrates just how interlinked markets are.

Read the interview in full here.

309 issuers
42 countries
11 currencies

1.  XS1271836600   EUR   Deutsche Lufthansa   5,125%    12/08/2075

2. XS1075219763   TRY   BEI   8,75%   18/09/2021  

3.  US900123BB58   USD   Turkey   7,25%   05/03/2038

Along with our overview of top traded debt securities from some of the world's leading issuers, LuxXPrime provides real-time information on our Most Viewed and Last Traded securities. Keeping your finger on the pulse of retail-sized trading has never been easier!

The Luxembourg Stock Exchange is the world’s leading listing venue for sustainable securities. In this series, we zoom in on some of the sustainable projects that are financed by securities available for trading on LuxXPrime.

In this fourth edition, we are featuring Mexico’s inaugural SDG bond.

The EUR 750 million bond is the first bond of its type to be linked to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which set out measurable goals to address issues such as poverty, inequality, environmental protection, peace and justice.

The bond, which drew interest from 267 institutional investors worldwide, marks a major advancement for sustainable finance and a historic step forward in Mexico’s commitment to the achievement of the SDGs.

The bond will also strengthen the country’s budget transparency and considerably increase earmarked spending for sustainable development programmes, contributing to the development of sustainable finance in the local and international capital markets.

The proceeds of the bond will finance projects located in multiple Mexican cities deprived from access to essential services, such as education, health services, electricity, and clean water. The bond will guarantee that only budgetary programmes targeting the most disadvantaged areas and vulnerable populations are eligible.

At the end of 2020, we celebrated LuxSE’s new status as a member of ASSOSIM (Associazione Italiana Intermediari Mobiliary), which has become a reference point for the trading segment and the provision of investment services on the Italian market.

With more than 90 members active in investment services, mostly in primary and secondary markets of equities, including banks, investment firms, law firms, IT consulting companies and branches of foreign brokerage firms, ASSOSIM encompasses around 82% of the total Italian trading volume.

Not only have we become an active member of ASSOSIM, but we have also joined forces with the industry association to organise a series of live webinars on exciting topics, such as the latest market trends and most recent LuxXPrime developments. Curious to know more about ASSOSIM and how it operates? Head to the association’s website!

It is important for the Luxembourg Stock Exchange to provide investors with a clear and transparent view of the trading quality and market conditions that LuxXPrime offers to bond traders. For this reason, LuxXPrime, with the help of our Prime Liquidity Provider - EUWAX AG, publishes the performance reports of its Prime Liquidity Provider (PLP) on a monthly basis.

To view the report in full, as well as PLP Performance Reports from previous months, visit our statistics page.

Back in September 2020, LuxSE announced its partnership with Colt Technology Services (Colt), a global IT services company helping businesses achieve better results by removing the complexity of delivering and integrating IT services, networks and data centres.
 
Market data is essential in providing traders and investors with reliable information on prices and trades for the financial instruments of their choice. As such, we welcomed this partnership with excitement.
 
The agreement started out with two simple goals: swiftly disseminate market data to LuxSE's end-users and deliver fresh market data to Colt via the Euronext Optiq platform through SFTI.

Since then, our partnership with COLT has grown even stronger. We recently finalised an agreement under which PrizmNet will sponsor connectivity to LuxSE and LuxXPrime. This will give our members and prospective clients the chance to benefit from a flexible offer and competitive pricing conditions to access LuxSE’s markets.