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This week in the parish of bourses and market structure:
ICE Aces FY 2021, NSE 5X Profit Growth and CBOE up 90% as the mega results for Q4 2021 continue to roll in.
My name is Patrick L. Young.
Welcome to the bourse business weekly digest.
It’s the Exchange Invest Weekly Podcast Episode 131.
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Banks have Opened a Fixed Income Front In Europe’s Data Price Battle, went the headline in Reuters. I quote: “The price of bond market data has risen by over half over the past five years, which could prompt some users to quit the market and damage liquidity industry body AFME said”.
So in other words, ladies and gentlemen, exchange data is bad say banks because of those pesky exchanges, but bond data which grows more in the wild is worse? Presumably, “The Onion” would paraphrase this as “Banks Desperately Seek More Costs To Complain About While Charging Customers Egregious Fees?”
The Moscow Exchange – fabulous news there we have reported in the past in this podcast that they had three and a bit million investors on the platform just a couple of years ago that reached a giddy 8.8 million traders last year. Wait for it by the end of 2021 they had hit 17.4 million investors that’s quite a milestone.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange boss he’s telling Japan they must embrace activist investors not quite hug hoody, but he’s saying that companies should be opening a dialogue with activist investors instead of trying to shut them out. He added the urgency to decision making that can be added by activist investors could lift the value of Japan Inc.
Athens Exchange they’ve been doing a couple of interesting little deals for cooperation. The first one up the Romanian Commodities Exchange (BRM) they’re going to be providing post-trading services for transactions on Romanian natural gas. That’s a product we announced was being launched just a week or so back. It’s another neat incremental expansion by the Greek Exchanges group who also announced post-trade cooperation with the Cyprus Stock Exchange this week in addition to CSDR.
The Nigerian Exchange – they plan a ‘NASDAQ’ with attractive conditions for tech firms. That is of course not to be confused with the Nigerian NASD platform, which itself is not related to the folks with the wondrous 7 storey screen on Times Square, New York.
In results this week: when ICE dropped a 15% divi...
