CME said planning derivative market in London
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CME Group Inc, owner of the world's biggest futures exchange, plans a derivatives market in London, to compete directly with Eurex and Liffe, the largest venues, three people familiar with the matter said.
The exchange will start with currency futures, the people said, declining to be identified as the information isn't public. CME's European exchange will be led by a chief executive officer and have a separate management team to CME's existing London office, they said. CME Clearing Europe will process trading for the new London exchange, the people said. Chicago-based CME plans to file with the UK securities regulator in the coming weeks as the first step in the process.
Ten years after going public the CME Group has become the most valuable exchange operator in the world, capitalizing on the higher profitability of derivatives while the value of equity trading has declined. The company controls 98 percent of the US futures market and gets about 20 percent of its business outside US trading hours. It opened London-based CME Clearing Europe, last year.
The new exchange means competition for Liffe and Eurex, whose owners, NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Boerse AG, had their plan to merge blocked by European antitrust authorities in February.
CME has been working on the project for about two years. It was delayed while NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Boerse held merger talks, the people said. Regulators scrutinizing the NYSE-Deutsche Boerse deal were focused on whether sufficient competition in derivatives existed in Europe and whether CME might become ''a significant player'' there.
CME was also sidetracked by the bidding war for the London Metal Exchange because acquiring the venue would have given it a European exchange to build on, the people said. As CME was unsuccessful in its LME bid, it decided to forge ahead with the project, the people said.
Eurex is Europe's largest derivatives exchange and London-based Liffe is second. Intercontinental Exchange Inc, the second-largest US futures market, owns ICE Futures Europe exchange in London. Trading at ICE Futures Europe exchange set a second-quarter record.
In January, a senior CME executive said the exchange's future is in Europe.
"London is a major office, the future is in Europe," Felix Carabello, CME Group's managing director of International Strategic Sales, said.
The exchange will start with currency futures, the people said, declining to be identified as the information isn't public. CME's European exchange will be led by a chief executive officer and have a separate management team to CME's existing London office, they said. CME Clearing Europe will process trading for the new London exchange, the people said. Chicago-based CME plans to file with the UK securities regulator in the coming weeks as the first step in the process.
Ten years after going public the CME Group has become the most valuable exchange operator in the world, capitalizing on the higher profitability of derivatives while the value of equity trading has declined. The company controls 98 percent of the US futures market and gets about 20 percent of its business outside US trading hours. It opened London-based CME Clearing Europe, last year.
The new exchange means competition for Liffe and Eurex, whose owners, NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Boerse AG, had their plan to merge blocked by European antitrust authorities in February.
CME has been working on the project for about two years. It was delayed while NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Boerse held merger talks, the people said. Regulators scrutinizing the NYSE-Deutsche Boerse deal were focused on whether sufficient competition in derivatives existed in Europe and whether CME might become ''a significant player'' there.
CME was also sidetracked by the bidding war for the London Metal Exchange because acquiring the venue would have given it a European exchange to build on, the people said. As CME was unsuccessful in its LME bid, it decided to forge ahead with the project, the people said.
Eurex is Europe's largest derivatives exchange and London-based Liffe is second. Intercontinental Exchange Inc, the second-largest US futures market, owns ICE Futures Europe exchange in London. Trading at ICE Futures Europe exchange set a second-quarter record.
In January, a senior CME executive said the exchange's future is in Europe.
"London is a major office, the future is in Europe," Felix Carabello, CME Group's managing director of International Strategic Sales, said.
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