“Liquidity in Europe means the costs are 10 times what you see in the US,” Jo Van de Velde, head of product management at Euroclear, said in the article. “As a result, the ETF market in Europe is $250 billion to $300 billion today, compared to a US market of $1 trillion.”
The BATS Chi-X Europe exchange also tries to address the fragmented market dilemma through a pan-European exchange to boost ETF liquidity. [BATS, BlackRock Pan-European ETF Listings Go Live]
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