Tomorrow, Saturday 26 September 2020, marks the 1st anniversary of the trading window of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE): LuxXPrime.

LuxXPrime is a window on the LuxSE trading platform, 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. It also counts 277 issuers across 36 countries and ten currencies.

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.

Earlier this month, the Danish fintech leader Saxo Bank A/S and LuxSE celebrated Saxo Bank's new status as a Trading Member of LuxSE. This collaboration is an important step forward for both institutions, as the door to LuxSE's more than 37,000 securities is now open to Saxo Bank's 620,000 international clients, including all sustainable securities displayed on the Luxembourg Green Exchange (LGX).

On the occasion of its 1st anniversary, Jens Furkert, Head of Fixed Income Trading at Euwax AG, commented: "One year of LuxXPrime shows that the combination of the listing tradition of LuxSE and the trading expertise of EUWAX AG is working very well. In LuxXPrime we are providing liquidity, also for retail-sized trades, in the current difficult and illiquid bond market environment. We are pleased that the product universe in LuxXPrime has now been expanded to around 1,000 bonds. Among others, foreign currency bonds and covered bonds have been added and the number of green bonds has also increased".

Guy Weymeschkirch, Head of Markets & Surveillance at LuxSE, added: "We are happy to celebrate the 1st anniversary of LuxXPrime. Despite challenging times, volatile markets and unprecedented uncertainty for investors, the industry experts at LuxSE and EUWAX's have worked well together to offer private and professional investors competitive spreads, firm prices and the highest quality retail-sized trading in fixed-income securities. It has been an exciting year and we are convinced that this is only the beginning. We sincerely thank all customers and business partners for choosing LuxXPrime, and we look forward to adding new functionalities and enhance our offering in the coming year!"