Bats Global Markets plans to begin life as a publicly-listed company on April 15 – and its CEO is in a bullish mood.

According to an investor presentation seen by Financial News, the operator of stock exchanges in the US and Europe describes April 15 as 'IPO day'. The IPO, which will take place on Bats' own exchange and has been dubbed internally as Project Wooden, has been in testing since July 31, 2015, according to the presentation.