Amsterdam, 12 July 2017 – NEPI Rockcastle (ticker symbol: NRP), one of the largest real estate companies in Continental Europe, began trading today on Euronext Amsterdam^[1].

At opening, based on a reference price of € 11.33 per share, the total market capitalisation of NEPI Rockcastle was approximately € 6.1 billion.

NEPI Rockcastle is the company created through the merger of real estate owners New Europe Property Investments (NEPI) and Rockcastle Global Real Estate (Rockcastle). The company owns and manages dominant retail assets and A-grade offices in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region, with a complementary portfolio of global real estate listed securities. It benefits from NEPI’s extensive operational platform and from both founders’ strong track record in completing value enhancing acquisitions and developments.

The company’s core direct property portfolio comprises 42 retail, 6 office and 2 industrial properties, located primarily in the CEE region, with 3 developments under construction and 17 under permitting and pre-leasing.

Paris – 11 July 2017 –  BNP Paribas, CACEIS, Caisse des Dépôts, Euroclear, Euronext, S2iEM and Société Générale with the support of Paris EUROPLACE announce the creation of the European fintech venture LiquidShare. This new independent startup is the fruit of a partnership launched by its shareholders in June 2016 to develop a post-trading blockchain infrastructure for the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) market.

LiquidShare is a dynamic and innovative company which core objective is to improve SME’s access to capital markets, improving the transparency and security of post-trading operations using blockchain. With the financial support of its shareholders, the company aims to develop and operate a post-trading infrastructure that will serve these companies specifically. Eventually, the solution aims to reduce transaction costs.

LiquidShare will be set up shortly in a Parisian incubator where it will employ various profiles to implement the platform. The startup will be led by Thibaud de Maintenant, who is named Chief Executive Officer of the company. In close cooperation with its large institutional partners, Thibaud de Maintenant will combine functional and technical expertise with innovative solutions to work towards the company’s goal.

At the launch, he commented: “With the launch of LiquidShare, we will use the great potential of the blockchain technology to become a key player in the post-trade industry. Supported by shareholders across the European financial market ecosystem, this initiative is the first of its kind.”

In addition, Anthony Attia, Managing Board member of Euronext, is appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LiquidShare.

LiquidShare harnesses blockchain technology that consists of a virtual ledger that assembles data for shared distribution between many different users. This technology has the potential to dramatically simplify the chain of post-trade operations, guaranteeing and facilitating the consolidation of securities registers, all while enabling a higher speed of execution with real-time settlement at T+0.

Appendix –

_{Biography of Thibaud de Maintenant
Thibaud de Maintenant  graduated from the Business Administration Institute of Paris and from the National Superior Engineering School of Caen. He began his career in the 1990s as an auditor at Mazars in Paris, before joining Clearnet SA in Paris, where he became Vice President four years later. In 2000, he joined Deutsche Bank in London as Head of Securities Services of Western Europe. Five years later, he was named Head of Direct Securities Services (DSS) for the Asia-Pacific region in Singapore. In 2011, he became Director of the Global Securities Services Division in London, to then take on, three years later, the responsibility of Deutsche Bank’s transactional bank in France. In July 2017, he became the CEO of Liquidshare.}

_{About BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. It has a presence in 74 countries, with more than 192,000 employees, including more than 146,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors. The Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporates and institutional clients) to realise their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance.
In Europe, the Group has four domestic markets (Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg) and BNP Paribas Personal Finance is the European leader in consumer lending.
. BNP Paribas is rolling out its integrated retail-banking model in Mediterranean countries, in Turkey, in Eastern Europe and a large network in the western part of the United States. In its Corporate & Institutional Banking and International Financial Services activities, BNP Paribas also enjoys top positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific.}

_{About Groupe Caisse des Dépôts
Caisse des Dépôts and its subsidiaries together form a State-owned group that is a long-term investor serving France's public interest and local and regional economic development. This role was reaffirmed by the French Law on modernisation of the economy of 4 August 2008.
The Group has renowned expertise in managing public service mandates and it has earmarked four priority sectors for creating jobs and partnering industrial development and innovation: business development, the energy transition, housing, and infrastructure and mobility. www.caissedesdepots.fr}

_{About CACEIS
CACEIS is the asset servicing banking group of Crédit Agricole dedicated to institutional and corporate clients. Through offices across Europe, North America and Asia, CACEIS offers a broad range of services covering execution, clearing, depositary and custody, fund administration, middle office outsourcing, forex, securities lending, fund distribution support and issuer services. With assets under custody of €2.5 trillion and assets under administration of €1.6 trillion, CACEIS is a European leader in asset servicing and one of the major players worldwide (figures as of 31 December 2016).
www.caceis.com}

_{About d’Euroclear
Euroclear group is the financial industry’s trusted provider of post trade services. At the core, the group provides settlement, safe-keeping and servicing of domestic and cross-border securities for bonds, equities and derivatives to investment funds. Euroclear is a proven, resilient capital market infrastructure committed to delivering risk-mitigation, automation and efficiency at scale for its global client franchise.
The Euroclear group includes Euroclear Bank - which is rated AA+ by Fitch Ratings and AA by Standard & Poor’s - as well as Euroclear Belgium, Euroclear Finland, Euroclear France, Euroclear Nederland, Euroclear Sweden and Euroclear UK & Ireland. The Euroclear group settled the equivalent of EUR 655 trillion in securities transactions in 2016, representing 196 million domestic and cross-border transactions. In 2016, the group held EUR 27.7 trillion in assets for clients.
For more information about Euroclear, please visit www.euroclear.com.}

Acquisition of an innovative board portal platform to complement the Euronext Corporate Services offering

Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon, London and Paris – 10 July 2017 – Euronext announces today the closing of the acquisition of a 60% stake in iBabs, a leading Dutch provider of dematerialised board portal solutions for corporates and public organisations , for a consideration of €30.1 million.

iBabs, based in the Netherlands, provides an efficient and secured board portal solution to close to 1,000 companies and public organisations with more than 77,000 users as of June 2017. The company reported a sustained revenue CAGR of 36% since 2014, generating €5.9 million revenue in 2016 and an EBITDA of €3.8 million (64% margin). In H1 2017, revenues grew by 29% compared to H1 2016.

The acquisition of iBabs marks the achievement of a significant milestone in the deployment of the Agility for Growth strategy announced in May 2016, particularly in the development of Euronext’s Corporate Services franchise. This transaction strengthens Euronext’s value proposition to listed companies while targeting a broader audience of private companies and public institutions. iBabs’ solutions will support governance, workflow management, efficient decision making processes and secured collaboration at board level and more generally across management teams. These solutions will be integrated into the Euronext Corporate Services offering, alongside existing services such as Euronext’s next-generation webcasting platform, investor relationship management tool and tailor-made advisory services. The founding management team of iBabs will remain in place, continuing to grow the business while benefiting from Euronext’s reach and expertise with listed companies.

The use of board portal services is expected to grow significantly over the coming years. With the acquisition of iBabs, Euronext will further accelerate its growth ambition profile while at the same time addressing the growing need of organisations for more streamlined and secure governance. 

Fully consistent with Euronext’s disciplined M&A policy, this transaction will be immediately accretive to the earnings with a return on capital employed above Euronext’s cost of capital in the first full year, before taking into account any synergies. The transaction is funded through existing debt facilities.

Stéphane Boujnah, Chairman and CEO of the Managing Board of Euronext NV, commented: “The acquisition of iBabs will enable organisations, both listed and non-listed, private and public, to run more efficiently thanks to this fully digital solution. This acquisition reinforces our commitment to making corporates’ life easier, safer and more productive. It also demonstrates our commitment to deliver growth and profitability to shareholders through a strict M&A discipline. The entrepreneurial spirit and commercial drive of the iBabs team coupled with the concrete response its services provide to day-to-day corporate needs, make us extremely confident in our ability to further roll out the iBabs offering throughout all Euronext markets.”

“We are very pleased to join Euronext today”, Paul Neefjes, CEO of iBabs, added. “We want to make meetings and governance more efficient for the largest number of organisations, and together with Euronext we aim to develop a true pan-European business. Having become the leading player for board portal solutions in the Netherlands, Euronext’s support will enable us to broaden and accelerate our development.”

€578 million raised; market capitalisation around €3,245 million

Paris – 7 July 2017 – Carmila, a specialist company dedicated to the revitalisation and the transformation of Carrefour shopping centres in France, Spain and Italy, today celebrated its successful listing in compartment A of Euronext’s regulated market in Paris. The move follows the merger of Cardety and Carmila on 12 June 2017. Carmila shares will trade under ticker code “CARM”.

With 205 shopping centres, Carmila helps retailers expand at leading sites in their local area, offering a range of marketing and digital solutions to win new customers and enhance outlets’ attractiveness. Carmila’s innovative and unique strategy, combined with extension projects and targeted acquisitions, will give the company the potential to deliver a strong and long-term growth.

Carmila now joins a community of more than 100 real estate companies listed on Euronext, adding up to a market capitalisation of over €124 billion euros.

The admission to trading of 24,102,084 new shares issued as part of a €578 million capital increase will be effective from 11 July 2017. This amount will rise to €632 million once the over-allotment option is fully exercised.  

The offering price was set at €24 per share. Based on the subscription price of the offer, the market capitalisation will be up to €3,245 million based on the offering price, including the full exercise of the overallotment option. 

Jacques Ehrmann, Carmila’s Chairman and CEO, said: “The successful completion of this capital increase allows Carmila to diversify its funding sources to accompany, over the long term, its ambitious growth strategy and reinforce its position as one of the major players of the Pan-European listed retail property sector. We are pleased to welcome new individual shareholders and leading institutional investors well-known for the quality of their investment strategy.”

Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon, London and Paris – 5 July 2017 – Euronext, the leading pan-European exchange in the Eurozone, today announced trading volumes for June 2017.

• The June 2017 average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at €8,242 million, relatively stable (-1.2%) compared to June 2016 and down -2.7% from the previous month. The average daily transaction value on ETFs was €414 million, down -39.4% compared to June 2016 and down-24.5% from the previous month. Our ETF offering increased this month with 822 listings at the end of June compared to 790 end of 2016.
• The average daily volume on equity index derivatives reached 247,489 contracts in June 2017, up +1.1% compared to June 2016 and up +11% from the previous month. The average daily volume on individual equity derivatives reached 464,604 contracts in June 2017, up 84.4% compared to June 2016 and up +78.5% from the previous month. These figures include a total of 5.6 million equity and index option contracts‎, resulting from the planned non-recurring migration of open interest from TOM to Euronext^[1], which took place at marginal rates due to the exceptional circumstances of the TOM closure.    
• In June 2017, the average daily volume on commodities derivatives reached 57,070 contracts, up +1.6% compared to June 2016 and up +63.3% from the previous month. The heatwave that hit France late June coupled with spring wheat problems in the U.S. has increased uncertainties on the wheat harvest this year which translated into a significant price and volatility increase.
• On a year-to-date basis, the overall average daily volume on Euronext derivatives stands at 572,757 contracts (+8.4% compared to end of June 2016) and the open interest was up at 15,517,641 contracts (+5.5% compared to end of June 2016).
• In June 2017, Euronext had five new listings including ALD with €5.8 billion market capitalisation and 4 SMEs that altogether raised €1.4 million. In addition, €6.1 billion were raised on Euronext in corporate bonds comprising of Orange with a €584 million issue in Paris, and €7.0 billion of follow-on equity.

Euronext monthly activity June 2017