Equity Trading Newsletter - March 2025

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Don't be afraid of the dark: 
zero latency, rebates, better markouts

Game

Euronext has implemented rebates of -0.2 bps for pure dark orders, across all trading participants, starting from March 2025.

Set 

Euronext Dark Passive Markouts have decreased by more than half since December 2024, improving from -0.6 bps to -0.2 bps at +1 second. Euronext Dark Absolute Markouts are now close to Periodic Auctions Markouts.

And Match

Are you planning to increase your passive posting on Euronext dark pool, thanks to the recent improvements in explicit and implicit costs?

Equity Trading March Newsletter



Commercial incentive: 
-0.2 bps rebate on pure dark orders

  • From 1 March 2025, all pure dark orders (excluding sweep) benefit from a rebate of -0.2 bps.
  • The rebate applies to passive and aggressive execution, across all trading participants, and without any volume requirement.
  • Sweep orders will still be charged according to standard “lit” fees.

New Quant Research Study: Markout advantage for Euronext Dark Mid-Point Match vs MTFs

  • Since the launch of Dark Rebate Scheme and a stricter monitoring of liquidity takers in December 2024, Euronext Mid-Point Match has improved its market quality.
  • Euronext Dark passive markouts have decreased by more than half, improving from -0.6 bps to -0.2 bps at +1 second.

     

Quant Study - Markout advantage for Euronext Dark Mid-Point Match vs MTFs
Quant Study - Markout advantage for Euronext Dark Mid-Point Match vs MTFs

 

  • Public market data shows that Euronext Absolute Dark Markouts outperform those of MTFs.

     

Quant Study - Markout advantage for Euronext Dark Mid-Point Match vs MTFs 2
Quant Study - Markout advantage for Euronext Dark Mid-Point Match vs MTFs

 

  • Euronext Absolute Dark Markouts (green line) are now comparable to Periodic Auctions Markouts (blue line).

     

Quant Study - Markout advantage for Euronext Dark Mid-Point Match vs MTFs 3
Quant Study - Markout advantage for Euronext Dark Mid-Point Match vs MTFs


Did you miss our webinars?

 
Vincent Boquillon, Head of Equity Trading and Paul Besson, Head of Quant Research at Euronext, respectively presented the commercial developments and quantitative improvements of Euronext's dark pool.
 
Watch the replay of our webinars and download the slides:

 

Webinar for Buy-Side          Webinar for Sell-Side

Contact

EquitiesTeam@euronext.com for project updates and equity statistics.

EuronextEquitySales@euronext.com to contact your sales representative.

QuantReports@euronext.com to receive the quant research study.