Handelsbanken Capital Markets is launching a new smart service for institutional customers. Customers can trade directly on Europe's leading stock markets with a couple of simple clicks. They can conduct everything from a simple equity trade to a complex trade using advanced trading functionality. In this way, Handelsbanken is meeting the large demand for advanced, cost-efficient services for direct market access trading on a broad range of markets.

 

The service is being launched in cooperation with NeoNet, Europe's leading independent supplier of DMA (Direct Market Access) solutions.

 

Mikael Ericson, Head of Handelsbanken Capital Markets, states, "We are offering our customers a world-leading service with our new, advanced solutions for direct equity trading on Europe's stock exchanges. It is important that we always find the best solution for our customers. Therefore, we have chosen to cooperate with NeoNet, which is the most innovative player in direct market access solutions."

 

In the first stage, Handelsbanken is offering direct market access to 13 leading European stock exchanges. This is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2007. The second stage plans to offer direct market access to stock exchanges beyond Europe.  

 

 

 

 

 

Handelsbanken Capital Markets is Handelsbanken's investment bank. It is responsible for Handelsbanken's transactions in the fixed income, foreign exchange and stock markets, including macroeconomic, equity, credit and financial research, corporate finance, debt capital markets and structured products. More than 500 staff on three continents specialise in financial solutions for Nordic requirements. Handelsbanken Capital Markets is an integral part of Handelsbanken, which has more than 600 branches, operations in 20 countries, total assets of SEK 1,581 billion and an operating profit for 2005 of SEK 15.7 billion. The Bank has around 10,400 employees.