ICE to Offer TMC’s Services Alongside Its Own The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), owner of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), will be expanding its electronic trading offerings for fixed income liquidity via its $685 million acquisition of TMC Bonds, ICE officials say. The cash transaction will close during the second half of 2018, “subject to… Read More >>
FCA Greenlights More OTFs, MTFs in Time for MiFID II
BGC, Integral Get FCA Approvals Just in time for the onset of MiFID II, the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has authorized that BGC Brokers LP, GFI Brokers Ltd., GFI Securities Ltd. can each operate an organized trading facility (OTF), and Sunrise Brokers can operate a multilateral trading facility (MTF) via GFI Brokers Ltd. and… Read More >>
ICE Agrees to Sell Trayport to TMX Group
ICE to Get Cash & Some TMX Group Assets The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which owns the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), is selling a Trayport, a vendor of pre-trade energy solutions for traders, brokers and exchanges, to the TMX Group, parent company of the Toronto Stock Exchange, in exchange for certain TMX Group assets and… Read More >>
LSEG-Deutsche Börse Breakup Paves the Way for Other Suitors
The marriage of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and the Deutsche Börse was always on shaky ground despite the participants hoping that this time they would be able to finally walk down the aisle after two failed attempts. However, this was not to be and the European Union competition regulators broke up the union…. Read More >>
U.K. Watchdog Challenges ICE’s Trayport Acquisition
The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is pushing back on the provisional findings from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) in-depth investigation showing that ICE’s $650 million acquisition of London-based Trayport, a trading software provider, could reduce competition. According to Simon Polito, chair of the CMA’s inquiry, “We examined the merger’s competition risks and given the… Read More >>
Brexit Could Put U.K. Clearinghouses in Limbo
The Brexit wars are heating up in the U.K. as the European Referendum draws closer but it is still too early to call the outcome. In the meantime, President Obama lent support to the remain or stay-in campaign during his recent visit to the U.K. But the leave party is doing its level best to… Read More >>
ESMA Pries Open Derivatives Clearing
Although not all clearinghouses will be happy, the European Securities Market Authority Association (ESMA) decision to allow more choice in trading and clearing was welcomed by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Nasdaq Stock Market, which have long championed greater competition in derivatives clearing. The so-called open access rule, set out under Markets in… Read More >>
ICE Issues Roadmap for Libor Reform
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), an operator of stock exchanges and clearinghouses, including the New York Stock Exchange, reports that its ICE benchmark administration (IBA) has published a roadmap for the evolution of ICE Libor, formerly the BBA’s (British Bankers’ Association) Libor. Libor is, of course, the London interbank offered rate, a measure of major London banks’… Read More >>
CME May Spur Bidding War for the LSE
There is a sense of déjà vu in the air with talk of a $28 billion merger between Deutsche Börse and the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). The two have been circling around each other for years but as in the past, rival exchanges may try and break the bond. This time around the Intercontinental… Read More >>
ICE Mulls Move to Buy London Stock Exchange
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) officials are acknowledging “recent press speculation” that they may put forth an offer to buy the LSEG, which has gone public with its potential merger of two equals with Deutsche Börse. As outlined by LSEG and Deutsche Börse officials, the potential merger would be “structured as an all-share merger of equals under… Read More >>
