Multilateral trading facilities: Brokers plan exchange tie-up

Just six years after deciding that they would be best served by exchanges run for profit and owned by institutions other than themselves, investment bankers have conspired to try to undo their mistake.

Seven leading investment banks – Credit Suisse, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and UBS – which together account for about half the trading volume on Europe’s exchanges, this November announced that they were clubbing together to develop a mutually owned pan-European multilateral trading facility (MTF). Such an institution, run at cost and developed according to their needs, they argue, would do a much better job than the profit-driven exchanges they not long ago agreed to unleash.

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