UPDATE 1-NYSE Euronext aims for top US options share in '10
Wed Dec 9, 2009 4:18pm ESTStocks
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* Was nearly No. 2 in November
* Amex stake sale to propel growth next year
* Deal with Wall St. firms likely to close early 2010
TORONTO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - NYSE Euronext (NYX.N) aims to be the top U.S. options exchange operator next year, its chief executive said on Wednesday, arguing a planned stake sale in one of its two trading venues will propel growth.
Duncan Niederauer said the company's NYSE Amex Options exchange has already gained market share due to an agreement to sell a "significant" stake to seven Wall Street firms. The CEO added the deal, announced in September, would probably close very early in 2010.
NYSE Euronext's two options marts, Amex and NYSE Arca Options, accounted for a combined 22.8 percent of the total U.S. options volume last month, up from 15.6 percent a year ago, according to the Options Clearing Corp.
The company fell just short of the No. 2 International Securities Exchange, at 23.05 percent, and the No. 1 Chicago Board Options Exchange, at 31.8 percent, last month.
"We're going to shoot to be number one next year," Niederauer told a conference hosted by Goldman Sachs, and webcast online. "We're close enough to No. 1 now. I think December will be the first month that we're clearly No. 2, and I don't see why we can't be No. 1 next year."
The New York Stock Exchange parent, which also runs a handful of venues in Europe, said earlier this year it was aiming for 25 percent of the fast-growing options market by the end of 2009.
Amex's options market share has risen nearly 50 percent since August, the month before the stake sale was announced. NYSE Euronext will retain the largest stake in the exchange that it acquired last year.
"We've got to get regulatory approval, that's all on track. But the market share gains have already been realized and I'm sure you'll see more once we get the deal finally closed," Niederauer said of the stake sale.
"Hopefully that will close in the near future here, probably very early in 2010." (Reporting by Jonathan Spicer, editing by Leslie Gevirtz)
Vind dit nogsteeds een erg slimme zet.
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