CBOE : New Bats European Benchmark Indices Now Live

New Bats European Benchmark Indices Now Live- One year since launching its index business, Bats offers full benchmark index coverage across Europe- New comparison charting tool on Bats Indices website allows users to compare indices across markets, geographies and sectors

LONDON - 19 June 2017 - Bats Europe (Bats), a CBOE Holdings, Inc. company and the region's largest equities exchange operator, today announced it has gone live with 18 new regional European benchmark indices, including the Bats Eurozone 50, Bats Nordic 40 and Bats Europe All Companies.

The 18 new indices include the following regional indices, including 12 European sector indices:

The new indices provide investors and market participants with a real-time, high-quality, low-cost alternative to existing benchmarks. The indices have performed closely in line with comparable benchmarks and are designed and managed under the same set of consistent Bats' rules used to create all of Bats' benchmark indices, valued using Bats' own market data and utilising the same start date and base value. This allows users to easily and accurately compare market, region and sector performance across Europe.

Bats has also launched a new easy-to-use tool on its website that allows anyone to compare the performance of its indices against each other. The comparison tool, which is currently in beta phase, also allows users to download the index charts as images to use in articles and presentations.

The data for the new indices is available on the Bats Indices website, as well as through various market data vendors. All Bats indices are available free of charge to media clients to distribute in real time. The indices are also free of charge for benchmarking purposes and for vendors to distribute.

Bats launched its index business in June 2016 and now offers 57 indices (calculated in both price and net total return) across 15 markets including 25 national indices, five pan-European indices, one pan-Nordic index, 24 sector indices (12 UK sector indices, 12 European sector indices), and two Bats Brexit 50/50 Indices.

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About Bats Europe

Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. company, is Europe's largest equities exchange by value traded and offers trading in more than 5,500 securities across 15 major European markets, over one platform and under one rule book. In addition, Bats Europe's leading trade reporting service, BXTR, reports the majority of OTC equity market trading executed in Europe.

Bats Europe is the brand name of Bats Trading Limited, a Recognised Investment Exchange regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

AboutCBOE Holdings, Inc.

CBOE Holdings (BATS: CBOE | NASDAQ: CBOE), owner of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the Bats exchanges, CBOE Futures Exchange and other subsidiaries, is one of the world's largest exchange holding companies and a leader in providing investors cutting-edge trading and investment solutions. With 14 trading venues, CBOE offers trading across a diverse range of products, including options, futures, U.S. and European equities, exchange-traded funds, and multi-asset volatility and global FX products.www.cboe.com.

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