Welcome to the LuxXPrime Newsletter!

Welcome to this year’s second 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, let's talk about 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 230+ securities has now expanded and counts more than 1,200 securities, including 180+ 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.

The Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) is pleased to announce the admission of Caceis Bank as a new trading member with immediate effect. As a trading member, Caceis Bank aims to enable its retail and institutional clients to execute transactions on shares, bonds, warrants and certificates of instruments listed on LuxSE.

“It is a great pleasure to welcome Caceis Bank as a new trading member at the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. As an important player in the European asset servicing landscape, Caceis makes a significant addition to our list of trading members,” commented Julie Becker, CEO of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.

As revealed earlier this month, Euronext is planning to migrate its hosting services from its current Data Centre in Basildon, UK, to the Aruba Global Cloud Data Centre (IT3) in Bergamo, Italy.
 
The move, which is subject to regulatory approval and is set to be completed by 6 June 2022, is planned in response to multiple factors, including the acquisition of Borsa Italiana Group, the dynamic created by Brexit and a strong rationale to locate a Data Centre in a country where Euronext operates a large business.

The scope of the migration will cover the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) markets together with all Euronext Cash and Derivatives Markets. Members and Info Vendors of LuxSE will need to be able to connect to the new Data Centre in order to be able to access the market trading platform (Optiq), Saturn, Trade Confirmation System (TCS) Web, End of Day services and Plug Web.

It has now been just over two years since the launch of LuxXPrime, LuxSE’s dedicated retail-sized trading platform. We caught up with Camilo Realpe, Market Data Manager, Markets & Surveillance at LuxSE to take a closer look at the platform and its dedicated trading section for retail-sized bond trading.

321 issuers
44 countries
12 currencies

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

2. US900123BB58   USD   Turkey   6,875%   17/03/2036

3.  XS1075219763   TRY   BEI   9,25%   03/10/2024 

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!

Earlier this year, we finalized an agreement 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.

Under this new agreement, Colt PrizmNet will sponsor connectivity to LuxSE and LuxXPrime, giving trading members and prospective clients the chance to benefit from flexible offers and competitive prices to access LuxSE’s markets.

Today, we are proud to reveal that EUWAX AG has become the first member to have benefitted from the collaboration between LuxSE and COLT, having successfully completed its migration to a new technical set-up using Colt technology.

At the end of September, LuxSE joined a number of other exchanges and post-trade operators at the annual conference of ASSOSIM, the Italian Association of Financial Markets Intermediaries that we recently became a member of.

Luigi Campa, LuxSE's Product & Client Development Manager, Markets & Surveillance took part in panel discussion aimed at highlighting innovation within the financial markets industry.

Held at the Congress Hall of the Banco BPM, the conference was an opportunity to share best practice knowledge on trading and ESG finance, amongst other topics, and bring to light some of the significant development and innovations that have taken place at LuxSE in recent years.

These include the launch of our innovation-driven partnerships with Origin and FundsDLT, our continued commitment to a more sustainable future through our leading sustainable finance platform LGX and of course, our partnership with EUWAX and the launch of our retail-size trading platform LuxXPrime in 2019!

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

Discover Ørsted's green bond!

In this sixth edition, we are featuring Ørsted's green bond whose proceeds funded the conversion of the Skærbæk power station's biomass conversion project.

The EUR 500 million bond was issued in 2017 and following a three-year period of conversion, the power station now produces green district heating based on biomass for the equivalent of around 60,000 homes.

By converting to sustainable wood chips, the Skærbæk power station's annual CO2 emissions dropped by about 226,000 tones - the equivalent of the annual emissions from some 116,000 cars.

Maturity Date: 24/11/3017

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.