The Eurex/ISE Link* provides our members with the opportunity to directly trade and clear the most liquid U.S. options listed on the International Securities Exchange (ISE).

As a Eurex Member you benefit from your existing Eurex membership; you do not need to become a direct member with ISE to trade U.S. options from Europe. An agreement with your Clearing Member is sufficient to get direct access to ISE's order book and take advantage of the operational efficiency offered by Eurex Clearing you are accustomed to.

ISE, the world's largest equity options exchange, has an approximately 30 percent share in the U.S. equity options industry and has traded an average daily volume of four million contracts on a year-to-date basis. It offers options on over 2,000 equities, ETFs, equity indexes, and FX products.

With 150 Members, ISE traded an average daily volume of 3.1 million options contracts in 2011.