Magnus Böcker: Sweden’s merger master turns his talents to Asia

Magnus Böcker has had a string of successful securities exchange mergers. Now chief executive of the Singapore Exchange, he hopes to conclude a fruitful merger with the Australian Stock Exchange. Chris Wright reports.

IN EARLY 2003, Magnus Böcker was the deputy chief executive of Stockholm-based market technology provider OM Technology. Had you told him then that within five years he would be president of Nasdaq OMX, the largest exchange company in the world and the product of an eight-way consolidation spearheaded by him, he would probably have laughed. Had you suggested that he would then ditch that dream job to try to engineer an audacious merger between the stock exchanges of Sinegapore and Australia, that wouldn’t have made a lot of sense either.

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