The Euronext^® Euro Large Cap Biodiversity Leaders 30 Index has been awarded “Index of the year” at the SRP Europe Awards Ceremony, held on 8 March 2023 in London, UK.

What is the Euronext Euro Large Cap Biodiversity Leaders 30 index?

The Euronext Euro Large Cap Biodiversity Leaders 30 helps investors identify large-cap companies from Euronext Eurozone 300 Index that score well on biodiversity. Designed by Euronext Indices in partnership with BNP Paribas, the index leverages biodiversity impact analytics (BIA-GBS) co-developed by Carbon4 Finance and CDC Biodiversité.

The index aims to support the financial sector in its sustainable transition, to align with international targets, and reduce multiple pressures on biodiversity including climate change.

The Euronext® Euro Large Cap Biodiversity Leaders 30 index is an example of an innovative benchmark designed to provide exposure to large-cap companies with a low normalised impact on biodiversity. It considers different biomes (aquatic freshwater and terrestrial) and different time horizons (static and dynamic).

The index also includes a set of exclusion filters that are widely adopted by financial institutions.

Tackling the preservation of biodiversity is a key focus for Euronext

Responsible investment has become increasingly important, with the aim of supporting sustainable growth. Across financial markets, conversations around Biodiversity risk remain high on the agenda, driven also by various EU regulations (EU Taxonomy, SFDR) and local regulations (Article 29 of the French law on Energy and Climate) that require disclosures on Biodiversity.

At Euronext, we offer a full suite of Biodiversity indices which are tracked by several ETFs and Structured Products.

Euronext indices are used by financial institutions all around the world

With more than 15,000 ETFs, funds and derivatives associated to our indices with billions in assets under management, Euronext has extensive expertise across a wide range of ESG and thematic indices, and is strongly engaged in supporting the financial sector’s sustainable transition.

This recognition as 'Index of the Year' from the industry is testament to the relevance of Euronext’s Index offering for market participants.

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A Crypto Index family to provide aggregated reference prices.

Why invest in Crypto assets?

Crypto-assets represent a major shift in the financial market, and in recent years have grown in popularity.  This market is still maturing and finding its place in the regulatory world; Crypto-asset markets are a growing segment and are attracting increasing institutional clients’ demand. Regulators recognise that crypto-assets will have a significant place in financial market and that they can support financial inclusion, provide secure payments and improve controls and efficiencies.

The European Union is preparing a dedicated framework to regulate crypto-assets, which is expected to be ready in 2023/2024. This new legislation ambitions is to mitigate risks and give legal certainty to both issuers of these assets and investors.

Euronext Crypto Index family

To continue supporting the growing demand for innovative investment solutions, the Euronext crypto indices family measures aggregated crypto exchange rates against US Dollars for main crypto-assets.

Euronext has carefully selected these crypto-assets based on liquidity and other main criteria (such as robustness of the underlying use case and the market valuation of the crypto-assets) in partnership with a crypto-asset specialist.

Euronext Crypto Indices are based on written and transparent rules and procedures with the purpose of minimizing as much as possible the exercise of discretion and expert judgment. The Euronext Crypto Indices are built from input data that is not interpolated, extrapolated or adjusted. In case of lack of data, the last available data is used.

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Created in partnership with Compass Financial Technologies

Euronext has partnered with Compass Financial Technologies to develop its crypto indices.

Euronext crypto indices can serve as benchmarks for investors willing to issue investment products tracking crypto-asset prices or serve as independent and transparent prices to value crypto-asset portfolios.

Euronext crypto indices are designed to meet the requirements of EU BMR with trades observed on various eligible exchanges (currently include Bitstamp, Bitfinex, Coinbase, Gemini, Kraken and Lmax. This selection is based on volumes and whitelisting).

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Opportunities for a large range of investment vehicles such as ETPs.

Focus on the Euronext Crypto Select Top 25 index

The Euronext^® Crypto Select Top 25 Index provides broad exposure to the overall crypto-asset market while limiting the weight of any single asset to 30%. The index selects the top 25 ranked crypto-assets based on whitelist and market capitalization, meeting minimum volume and market capitalization thresholds. Index weightings are based on the market capitalisation of each asset, with a cap at 30%.

Euronext’s range of single crypto indices

Euronext Crypto Single Name Indices measure crypto exchange rates against US Dollars for the main cryptocurrencies. Indices are computed and published every trading day. Euronext Crypto Indices are based on one single crypto-asset. The objective of crypto indices is to serve as benchmarks for investors willing to issue investment products tracking crypto-assets prices or serve as independent and transparent prices to value crypto-assets portfolios. These indices follow a resilient methodology and are calculated on the collection of all observable prices for one specific crypto-asset on different selected exchanges, following an approach designed in partnership with Compass Financial Technologies.

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The first European Space index to measure the stock market performance of European space companies.

Why invest in the Euronext Helios Space Index?

Euronext and the European Space Agency, in collaboration with the European Commission and Promus Ventures, have developed the first Euronext European Space-related index, measuring the stock market performance of European companies in the Space sector.

The Euronext^® Helios Space Index is designed to display a fair and balanced representation of companies involved in the Space industry including European-born and European-operated space companies.

The Helios Space Index helps investors to identify companies with ‘upstream’ or ‘downstream’ activities related to the Space industry, which are within ESA (European Space Agency) Member States or benefiting from European support (business incubation, acceleration, financing).

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The Euronext® Helios Space Index offers opportunities for the creation of a wide range of investment vehicles such as ETFs, funds and structured products.

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In December 2022, BPER Banca successfully placed €500 million of fixed-to-floating Senior Non-Preferred bonds, a particular type of subordinated bonds aimed at institutional investors.

We asked Marco Biale, Head of Structured Finance at BPER Banca, how it went.

Confirmed advantages - for BPER Banca it will be the new benchmark.

"The operation was a great success, by far the most performing placement operation in the history of our bank. The book building process received a demand of over €2 billion, against an offer of half a billion, from over 200 global investors.

We were also surprised by a component of the demand from the Far East (Japan, Singapore, etc.): an area that we did not think we could reach and that joined the more consolidated markets such as the UK. We can safely say that we now think globally when we design a debt issuance on the market.

The operation had its challenges. Then BPER group has completed a series of important acquisitions in recent years, which have radically expanded its perimeter. The latest, the acquisition of Banca Carige, saw the registration of the merger deed on November 28, so the new issuance of senior non-preferred had to take into account several very recent changes.

In 2022 alone, we completed five issuances. It was an extraordinary year also from this point of view and it ended with this latest success, which was certainly encouraged by a positive market sentiment. An opportunity that we were able to seize".

- BPER was the first bank in Italy to issue debt under its EMTN (Euro Medium Term Notes) program centralized in full dematerialized form at Euronext Securities Milan. The practice so far has been to issue physical bonds - generally New Global Notes - under Anglo-Saxon jurisdiction. What were the differences with this new management? What are the advantages?

Simple and efficient processes

This new digital and dematerialized form presents great advantages that we had the courage to test first.

We have thus challenged market practices that, in our opinion, no longer have any reason to exist.

With the old system, one still has to issue securities that are at least partly subject to British jurisdiction: this means, in the Post-Brexit era, binding oneself to a corpus of extra-community rules, with the risks that this entails, also in relation to regulators such as Banca D'Italia and the ECB.

As Italian issuers, we can now issue totally dematerialized securities that only respond to Italian law, as is the case for covered bond issuances for years. Non-financial Institutions such as the Ministry of Economy and CDP (Cassa Depositi e Prestiti) have been doing this for decades. This system greatly simplifies bond management and procedures.

It translate in lower costs, lower time-to-market, and above all, greater simplicity and efficiency of processes. But there are very concrete advantages

The previous structure, that of the new global notes, practically requires a physical signature on several documents every year in the UK. If one does not have a presence in the country, one must resort to a process agent who essentially allows for indirect domiciliation, but entails the assumption of an ad hoc external figure and its annual renewal.

We can all imagine in the Covid era what enormous difficulties and unnecessary costs the need to physically sign paper documents in London at least once a year for each issuance may have entailed

Euronext Securities Milan, which has been managing dematerialized issuances for over 25 years, has always provided us with an excellent service and we have also found this in this new issuance. With the new method, they become our sole point of contact for a complete range of services, including payment agent services, which translates in simplicity and efficiency.

With the practice of new global notes, on the other hand, we had to interface - also legally - not only with European clearing systems, but also with other required third and intermediary figures, which inevitably complicated the management of the entire issuance. Now everything is more direct and transparent.

- BPER presented its 2025 industrial plan last June. In this context, what are the next initiatives you have planned?

We intend and need to return to the market, between this year and the first few months of 2024, with at least two new senior non-preferred issuances.

We will probably have to do more, but I can already say that for us, centralized dematerialization in digital form at Euronext Securities Milan will be the standard.

It is a practice that we have successfully tested, and our goal is to consolidate it.

I also think that it has the potential to become the market standard and win over the previous practices that now have too many disadvantages."

The Euronext indices around Gender equality in the workplace

Why invest in Gender Equality?

The aim of gender equality in the workplace is to achieve equal opportunities and outcomes for women and men. This will be achieved when people are able to access and enjoy equal rewards, resources and opportunities regardless of gender. United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #5 set a 2030 deadline for the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.

Gender equality through business operations and value chains also means better talent, higher productivity, more customers and a stronger bottom line.

Supporting United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG) #5

The Euronext^® Equileap Gender Equality Index Family has been designed to offer exposure to companies that have demonstrated a strong role in improving gender equality within their organisation.

The Euronext^® Equileap Gender Equality Indices track companies that have demonstrated a commitment to gender equality from the boardroom to the supply chain, inspired by the United Nations Women's Empowerment principles and the UN SDG #5, which set a 2030 deadline for achieving gender equality and empowering all women.

Designed with a comprehensive filtering process, in which companies are selected through their Equileap Gender Equality score which is based on four pillars:

• Gender balance in Leadership and Workforce
• Equal compensation & Work-life Balance
• Policies promoting Gender Equality
• Commitment, Transparency & Accountability

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The Euronext Equileap Gender Equality Eurozone Index is designed to offer exposure to Eurozone companies that have demonstrated a strong role in improving gender equality.

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The Euronext Equileap Gender Equality France Index is designed to offer exposure to French companies that have demonstrated a strong role in improving gender equality.

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Interview - 21 March 2023

Euronext welcomes strong support for new trading interface

Euronext is reporting a strong response to the launch of its new trading interface, with broking clients TP ICAP and AFS Group already trading and some of the world’s top banks in the process of going live. 

Charlotte Alliot, head of institutional derivatives at Euronext, told Global Investor her team is pleased with the positive response to the recent phased delivery of Euronext Trader, the European exchange group’s new Graphical User Interface (GUI).

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