Nasdaq Europe, the European arm of the US technology exchange, has made two senior hires who will be responsible for generating new listings and markets.

Since the former Easdaq exchange was purchased by Nasdaq last year there have not been any new listings on Nasdaq Europe. The pan-European exchange also suffers from low liquidity in the secondary market. In the week ending January 18 the exchange had a total turnover of €13m ($11m) with 3.44 million shares traded.