Trading Exchange Traded Products

London Stock Exchange is one of Europe's largest and most established venues for Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), providing issuers and investors with access to a deep, international marketplace.

With more than 90 issuers choosing London Stock Exchange, the market offers a highly efficient, multi-currency listing and trading environment, connecting issuers with a broad international investor base.

London Stock Exchange offers a highly liquid secondary market designed to support efficient trading and competitive execution for ETP investors. Liquidity is supported by a broad network of registered market makers and innovative trading solutions, including RFQ 2.0. The service has delivered average price improvements of approximately 14.5% for liquidity takers, helping investors access improved execution outcomes.

Why Trade ETPs on London Stock Exchange?

  • Access one of Europe's largest ETP markets, with over 2,860 listed products.
  • Trade across ETFs, ETCs and ETNs spanning active, passive, commodity and digital asset strategies.
  • Benefit from deep liquidity and a strong network of market makers.
  • Achieve efficient execution through innovative trading services, including RFQ 2.0.
  • Access a diverse international investor community through a highly efficient, multi-currency marketplace.
  • Leverage programmes designed to support retail participation and market access.

RFQ 2.0 explained

To support the varied trading needs of our customers, London Stock Exchange introduced RFQ 2.0 for ETFs and ETPs. Watch this short film for a quick overview of how the functionality works.

Discover more about RFQ 2.0
Supporting ETF investor's varying needs,London Stock Exchange is revolutionising the Request for Quote Market.Introducing RFQ 2.0Today's ETF trading landscape is a fragmented marketplacewhere offering are spread across various exchange and RFQ platforms.Investors are mainly trading ETFs via RFQsand only receiving risk pricing.But investors are not interacting with visible or hidden passive liquidity on order books.Interacting bilaterally with just liquidity providers is limitingand requires legal agreements and ongoing due diligence.As these platforms are often not CCP cleared,they can introduce counter party risk leading to settlement risk.Preferable approach are available to investors.London Stock Exchange RFQ 2.0 is changing this landscape foreverWe're integrating all these elements under one exchange.We're offering auto-complete, RFQ functionality and innovative order book sweep with built-in CCP clearing.We're helping investors achieve better outcomesby instantly accessing different types of liquidity in one place.How does RFQ 2.0 work?Use your existing London Stock Exchange order book connectivity to access RFQ 2.0.The functionality allows execution directly on London Stock Exchange's Main Market,achieving a best full fill price for you in a fully automated environment.Auto-complete has simplified RFQ trading, turning the multi-click modelinto a one-click send-and-trade approach.Because we're not limiting the request to just RFQ responses,we can improve on the risk price and trade against lit and hidden liquidity on the order book.The result is a better execution price.A tailored, conditions-based execution model is designed to fit neatly into brokers' execution offering.RFQ 2.0 benefits users with bilateral relationships in an exchange environment.Fully integrated CCP clearing provides settlement clarity,balance sheet efficiency and removes the need to paper bilaterally with liquidity providers.CCP clearing is also ideally suited to the impact of Central Securities Depositories Regulation.Integrate the next generation of automated RFQ with ORDER BOOK SWEEPLondon Stock Exchange RFQ 2.0Contact London Stock Exchange for more details.

Evolution of ETFs Video Series

Watch this four-part video series to explore the key drivers and trends shaping the ETF landscape, from regulation shifts to investor demand, the rise of algorithmic trading and the growing interest into diversification of investor portfolios.

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Still have questions?

  • Tom Stenhouse
    CEO, Turquoise and Head of Product, Equities Trading
  • Alex Watkins
    ETP Business Development Lead
  • Ali Al-Abadi
    ETP Product Manager