The London Stock Exchange says it expects to report a "good first-half set of results", with both share trading and capital raising well ahead of last year... more
London's position as a global financial centre is under threat from the proposed merger of Deutsche Borse and NYSE Euronext, the chief executive of the London Stock Exchange has said... more
Xavier Rolet, chief executive of the London Stock Exchange, is keeping a close eye on rival stock markets' urge to merge even as he pushes his own £4.2 billion deal with Canada's TMX Group forward... more
Michael Spencer's broking giant Icap enjoyed a strong final quarter to its financial year as political unrest and natural disasters led to highly volatile markets... more
Much has been made of Laura Wade-Gery's move from Tesco to Marks & Spencer to beef up its online offering. The stock market - that great arbiter of value - decided she was worth the equivalent of four Fernando Torres, adding £200 million to Marks' market value after her appointment was announced... more
Xavier Rolet, chief executive of the London Stock Exchange, today said that it had a good third quarter with income rising 6% on a year earlier
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It wasn’t just France’s drubbing of England at Wembley last night that had Xavier Rolet, chief executive of the London Stock Exchange, enthusing today... more
City Comment: It is very difficult to believe that the capitalist system has been seriously improved by the arrival of computers able to trade in a microsecond... more
Comment: Spread-betting firm IG Index's market capitalisation has overtaken that of the London Stock Exchange for the first time - but their positions will be reversed within a fortnight... more
City Comment: Eruptions by Icelandic volcanoes might have proved more spectacular than anything offered by corporate governance in the past few days, but there is still a lot happening just below the surface... more
The London Stock Exchange’s (LSE) profits took a battering in the last six months as it fought against new, cut-price competitors jumping in with cheaper, rival electronic share-trading platforms... more
'The 1000' - the Standard's list of the capital's top movers and shakers - is out tomorrow. Here's a preview of 25 bright sparks who make this year's selection for the first time... more
The London Stock Exchange is set to take over Turquoise, the share trading platform set up by nine big investment banks to challenge the Exchange’s dominance in the UK equity market ... more
One year ago today, the news broke that Lloyds TSB was going to take over HBOS in a £12.2 billion all-share deal. With the benefit of hindsight, it is still staggering to read the press release issued to the Stock Exchange the following morning, 18 September... more
Xavier Rolet stamped his authority as new chief executive of the London Stock Exchange with an £18 million deal to bring the market's key trading technology back in-house... more
When Xavier Rolet took over from the redoubtable Clara Furse as London Stock Exchange chief executive in late spring, the question most observers expected him to tackle first — apart from the need to take cost out of the organisation — was how to compete with the growing number of alternative trading venues such as Chi-X, Turquoise and BATS ... more
Turquoise, the European share trading system which rivals the London Stock Exchange and was founded by nine investment banks, has been put up for sale ... more
The London Stock Exchange posted a first-quarter revenue fall of 8% to £161.9 million as trading declined, but said there is light at the end of the tunnel with the latest figures up 5% on the preceding quarter ... more
Xavier Rolet has been chief executive of the London Stock Exchange for barely a week but he has already cleared a major legal dispute from his in-tray... more
Finance: The London Stock Exchange has marked the end of an era when it named Xavier Rolet as its new chief executive to take over from Dame Clara Furse... more
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