Standard Commodities, the exchange-traded commodity (ETC) platform of the Royal Bank of Scotland, has issued its inaugural product on the Xetra exchange in Germany.

Amundi ETF has listed a new CAC 40 fund that pays dividends, on NYSE Euronext Paris.

Turquoise, a European multilateral trading facility, is launching a service to trade US-listed ETFs during European hours.

BlackRock's ETF arm iShares has surpassed $500bn in global assets under management (AUM), hitting $509bn at the end of March.

IndexIQ has released an ETF tracking the small capitalisation sector of publicly traded companies in South Korea, on NYSE Arca.

Index provider Stoxx has launched the Eurostoxx 50 Dividend Points Futures index, which it has licensed to Lyxor to serve as the underlying for a new ETF.

Amundi ETF has entered the Swiss and Dutch ETF markets, registering 46 funds in the Netherlands and listing 10 products on the SIX Swiss exchange.

The European ETF market is celebrating 10 years since the first products were launched on the Deutsche Boerse.

The European ETF industry is expected to exceed $500bn in assets under management (AUM) by the end of 2012, according to BlackRock.

ProShares has listed two ETFs providing leveraged and inverse exposure to biotechnology on the US Nasdaq stock exchange.