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Finnish State Treasury Picks Eurex Bonds as Eligible Trading Platform

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Eurex: Eurex Bonds, the international electronic bond trading platform, today announced that it has been admitted by the Finnish State Treasury to act as a secondary market venue for trading of Finnish government bonds. In Finland, 14 primary dealers are eligible to conduct wholesale government bond market operations.

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Finland is the second European country to grant Eurex Bonds the status of “eligible platform” for primary dealers. Since 2008, Eurex Bonds has also been eligible for the wholesale government bond market in the Netherlands, the admission was re-confirmed in March 2009 by the Dutch Treasury Ministry. In 2009, around EUR 4 billion of Dutch government bonds (single counted) were traded via the Eurex Bond platform.

In the first three quarters of 2009, Eurex Bonds recorded a total traded volume (single counted) of EUR 66 billion.

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