| When the London Metal Exchange fired the starting gun on a potential sale last autumn, saying it had received several expressions of interest, it reflected an underlying shift of the merger frenzy that had gripped the exchange sector into a different sphere of the financial markets.
Until that point, attempted tie-ups between the likes of NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Börse, the London Stock Exchange and TMX Group, and the Australian Securities Exchange and its Singapore counterpart, were built on the premise of creating global groups with equities and derivatives trading at their core...............................................Full Article: Source
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