- SIX's bid for Aquis increases its market share from 10% to 15%. Is the exchange also betting that the EU will remove obstacles to it creating a pan-European listing venue?
- Aquis teams up with Cboe to prepare a bid to operate the EU's consolidated tape, putting the MTF operators in direct competition with a joint venture backed by stock exchanges.
- Euronext sets out its to-do list for the next three years. A "truly pan-European offering" for ETFs is item one. That's going to be a hard sell.
- Mario Draghi's call for a single clearinghouse for stocks has been met with puzzlement by the firms that operate Europe's central counterparties.
- ESMA's chair suggests a "step-by-step" process to empowering the regulator. Gradualism is unlikely to bring the benefits of a single regulator to the bloc's smaller markets.
- Market participants demand a cut-off of 6pm CET for outage-hit stock exchanges to declare a closing price.
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