Kansas City and London - BATS Global Markets has reported U.S. equities market share of 12.3% in July, the second-best monthly market share performance in the company's seven-year history, as well as monthly records in Europe including the Nordic and Portuguese markets.

"Our significant market share growth in the U.S., despite a steep decline in overall industry equity volumes, highlights BATS' ability to meet our customers' needs and our ability to continue to grow our core markets, even in challenging market environments," said CEO and President Joe Ratterman. "U.S. Options also reported one of its strongest months to date as the level of overall customer participation continues to increase."

"In addition, we are happy to report that BATS Chi-X Europe remains the largest pan-European market by notional value traded and we continue to see growth in numerous key indices, as evidenced by monthly records in Stockholm's OMXS, Copenhagen's OMXC, Oslo's OBX and Lisbon's PSI-20," he said.