BATS Global Markets  (BATS) has reported a 20.7% US equities market share in April, up from 10.9% a year ago.

BATS Options, meanwhile has reported 4.2% market share, up from 4.0% one year ago. Separately, BATS Options is the lead sponsor of the annual Options Industry Conference taking place in Austin, TX.


In Europe, BATS Chi-X Europe has reported overall market share of 21.4% with average daily notional value traded on the exchange up 11.8% versus March 2013. Over the course of the month EUR364bn of pan-European OTC trades were reported to BATS’ trade reporting facility, BXTR, setting a new record. In addition, BXTR posted a one day record of EUR24 billion of transactions on 24 April. 


In the US, BATS continued to make progress on the Direct Edge integration and on 4 April released the order entry and market data specifications that will be used for EDGA and EDGX within the NY5 data center when the company transitions these exchanges there in January 2015. The specifications and additional information is available at bats.com/edgeintegration and BATS will also share updates via its Twitter feed @BATSGlobal.