Econintersect:  Just fifty weeks ago, amidst much fanfare about the consolidation of global equity exchanges (see GEI News sources reference links), the New York Stock Exchange and the Frankfurt based Deutsche Börse announced merger plans.  The new combi… more »

  Econintersect:  Tom Steinert-Threlkeld at Securities Technology Monitor has made twelve predictions for 2012 regarding how global trading markets will be changed.The predictions generally focus on continuing trends toward globalization and continuati… more »

In the middle of the past week shareholders of the TMX (Toronto Stock Exchange) failed to approve a planned merger with the LSE (London Stock Exchange). The early proxies for the approval by TMX shareholders made it evident that a required 2/3 vote for approval of the merger would not be possible. The failure of the merger came as a hostile bid for the TMX by the Maple Group became publicly known. The Maple Group is a consortium of business and banking interests which are all Canadian. more »

Econintersect:  Nasdaq OMX and Atlanta based ICE (International Commodities Exchange) are attempting to outbid Deutsche Boerse for NYSE Euronext.    Nasdaq OMX said its bid represents a 19 percent premium over the price proposed by Deutsche Boerse, bas… more »

The Singapore stock exchange has raised the amount of its offer and conceded more equal control to Australia in its stock exchange take over bid. more »