With all the New on LSE I think its time to get in to the London Stock exchange the Ex Div date is Monday and as part of a five million return to investors LSE is offering 200p per share plus and additional 8p per share and they are pulling the dates forward. So with Nasdaq and NYSE as well as the OMX looking to aquire the LSE I think it is perfect time to boost your holdings Good luck!

Bit of a marker coming up with Nasdaq having to make a decision on the LSE.

Any thoughts out there on this lot for a short term profit?

LONDON (AFX) - Seven of the biggest investment banks in Europe are working on building a stock-trading platform that could strip out a massive amount of trading from London Stock Exchange PLC at a time when the exchange is deciding its own future, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition.

But the plan by the banks -- Citigroup Inc., Credit Suisse Group, Deutsche Bank AG, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co., Morgan Stanley and UBS AG -- also faces its own challenges, including moving from a project that exists on paper to an actual system. A projected deadline is early 2008, officials for the consortium said yesterday.

Behind the banks' plan, which is using the code name 'Turquoise,' is the belief that the banks are paying the London Stock Exchange too much in trading costs for a complex system -- essentially computer servers -- that they think they can build themselves, the spokespeople said.

The bank consortium controls a big chunk of equities trading, accounting for about 50 pct of the volume on pan-European exchanges.

Besides lowering their trading costs, the banks believe that their new platform will enable them to better trade large blocks of stocks, a process they find cumbersome on the London Stock Exchange. Trading large blocks of shares is often a risky endeavor, because the owner buying or selling the shares doesn't want to tip the market to the trade.

A spokesman for the London Stock Exchange said the London market is already open to competition. Its ever-growing volumes of electronic orders are derived from it being the most efficient trading venue, he added. 'We will continue to develop this further to insure that it remains the most efficient venue for trading.'

The banks have been working on the project for at least the past several months and currently call it a Multilateral Trading Facility, the technicalities of being seen as creating an exchange. The banks will trade stocks on it that are listed on other exchanges. Companies that list on the LSE also will be able to be traded on the bank-consortium platform under a passport-type system that will exist under MiFID.

The banks plan to be shareholders in a new company that would create the trading platform. Costs of the plan aren't known. The bankers are currently conducting a search for management of the company. The consortium is debating whether to buy or build a trading system.

Other projects are in the works for similar platforms. As well, there are notable banks missing from the consortium, including HSBC Holdings PLC and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Those banks could potentially partner with others or pursue their own projects.
Sp down 8%. Shares mag. idea to short seems to have been well founded

Exchange Group plc (the 'Company') rejects Nasdaq's
final* offer to acquire the Company for 1243p per share in cash.

http://moneyam.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200611201348403599M.html

Apparently Lehman Bros trade represented 12% of all business going through the LSE. Expect this one to take a bit of a hit in the short term

Bombing along today.

What a lovely earner this one as been.

As long as we are in the blue overall this one tends to do well, one could say its a proxy on the whole market place..

Recent broker buy note..

31-Mar-09 London Stock Exchange Group LSE Arden Partners Buy - - Reiteration

im in and enjoyin g the ride!!

Ex-divi 27th Aug '11 (18p)

"The London Stock Exchange has triumphed in its attempt to take over LCH.Clearnet, the London-based clearing house, after the clearers board favoured the UK bourse over Markit, a rival bidder, Markit and another person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
The deal, which must still be approved by LCHs 98 shareholders, marks a coup for Xavier Rolet, the French chief executive of the LSE, since he took over from Clara Furse in 2009. It comes after he failed this summer to clinch a merger with TMX Group, operator of Canadas exchanges." (FT.com)

Ex-divi wed 28th July '12 (19p)

Merrill Lynch note:
"We have upgraded LSE Group to Buy, with an 1870p 12 month price objective. The core reason for this is that we think there is increasing evidence that the LCH is achieving share in client clearing. This offers a potential £100m of added revenue over the medium term, on decent operating margins, although subject to the SwapClear negotiations.
In addition, LCH currently has an operating margin of 21%, against 57% for Eurex. Closing this gap on existing businesses won’t be easy or rapid, but we think the company can make incremental progress over the next few years. This is another source of upside.
We think there is 28p of potential eps upside from these two sources. Visibility remains low, however, and so we have added in a somewhat conservative 100p of value. Our expectation is that visibility will improve. We follow clearing data weekly, and this has been pointing in the right direction. Also, we think the company should provide some more detailed commentary on costs with its next few updates.
The LSE’s share price has been a bit static of late, after a strong few months. This, allied to the company’s improving fundamentals, makes this an attractive buying opportunity, we think. The LSE is not a bargain stock, but we think it can deliver good news on a number of fronts, and valuation looks decent against its history and international peers. On under 15x March 15E earnings, with LCH well below run rate profitability, the company is trading well below global peers exposed to derivatives."

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London Stock Exchange Group reports a strong financial performance in the six months to the end of September with revenue growth across each of its business areas.

Revenue was up 18% at £592.6 million (H1 FY 2014: £504.2 million); up 15% on organic and constant currency basis.

The group says it continues to benefit from diversification across a wide range of businesses and markets.

Total income, including net treasury income (excluding unrealised gains/losses at LCH.Clearnet), rose 13% to £642.5 million (H1 FY 2014: £567.1 million); up 10% on organic and constant currency basis.

Underlying operating expenses were up 6%, and up only 2% on organic and constant currency basis, reflecting continued cost control and good operating leverage.

Adjusted operating profits rose by 24% to £286.1 million (H1 FY 2014: £229.9 million); up 21 per cent on organic and constant currency basis; operating profit of £172.3 million (H1 FY 2014: £151.0 million).

Chief executive Xavier Rolet said: "We have produced a strong set of first half results, with revenue up 18 per cent, reflecting increases across each of our business areas. In particular, our Capital Markets division delivered good growth in both primary and secondary market activities, FTSE revenues grew 10 per cent and LCH.Clearnet also performed well with increases in OTC and listed product clearing revenues. Operating expenses have remained well controlled and we are seeing benefits of the cost reduction programme at LCH.Clearnet.

"We expect to complete the acquisition of Frank Russell Company within the next few weeks and are making good progress with the comprehensive review. Following completion, the all important US market will represent around one-third of our revenues. The Group remains well positioned to develop across a wide range of businesses and markets."

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London Stock Exchange Group reports a strong financial performance for 2014 with total income up 26% at £1.38bn and adjusted profit before tax of £491.7m - up 19%.

Revenue rose by 32% to £1.28 billion - up 12% on organic constant currency basis with growth across all main business areas.

The group has changed its year-end to 31 December and the proposed final dividend of 12.8 pence per share is up 6.5% on an equivalent basis; total dividend of 22.5 pence per share for the 9 month period, equivalent to 75% of the payment that the board would have made for a full year to March 2015 The group aid core operating expenses were tightly managed - up 5% on an organic constant currency basis, partly reflecting costs arising from amendments to OTC clearing arrangements

Statutory results for the nine month period to 31 December show reported total income of £1,044.0 million; adjusted profit before tax of £368.2 million; and, adjusted basic EPS of 75.6 pence.

Chief executive Xavier Rolet said: "The Group has delivered another strong financial performance, with organic growth in all business areas and contribution from acquisitions. We have extended our international footprint and further strengthened our Information Services offering with the acquisition of Russell Indexes. We are already making good progress with the integration of Russell and FTSE, creating a global leader in indices. At LCH.Clearnet, we have successfully achieved the increased cost synergy targets on time, with work underway on further efficiencies.

"Our focus in the year ahead is to further develop opportunities across the Group, from our increased product range and extended geographic reach. Two such initiatives have just been announced, with LCH.Clearnet launching new portfolio margining across listed and cleared OTC interest rate products; and an agreement on new index options based on Russell and FTSE indices with CBOE. Working with our customers, the Group is well positioned to build on its success as the only major, open access market infrastructure business."

StockMarketWire.com
London Stock Exchange Group reports a good performance across each of its businesses in the 11 months to the end of November.

In Information Services: - Continued momentum in the integration of FTSE Russell and delivery of synergies

- ETF assets benchmarked to FTSE Russell up 4%

- demand for other information products, including UnaVista and SEDOL, remained strong

- trend in professional users of real time market data broadly unchanged

· In Post Trade Services, LCH.Clearnet has delivered a good performance in all OTC areas: - increased use of compression services through LCH.Clearnet, with $304 trillion compressed in total in the period, helping reduce IRS notional outstanding to $263 trillion, down 27%

- global client swap clearing up 67% - with 612,000 trades cleared

- CDSClear notional cleared up 165% - to 155 billion

- ForexClear notional cleared up 19% - to $974 billion

- fixed income clearing broadly unchanged - at 67 trillion

- cash equities and listed derivatives clearing up 22% and down 19% respectively, reflecting a continued decline in derivative trading levels in customer venues · In Post Trade Italy, clearing volumes increased 11%; initial margin held increased 24%, averaging 12.3 billion

· In Capital Markets:
- Primary markets were robust with £40 billion equity capital raised on the Group's markets for the period - down just 2% on last year in more challenging market conditions - with 161 new issues (2014: 193)

- Secondary markets saw average daily UK equity value traded up 9%; Italian average daily volumes up 7%; derivatives contracts traded on IDEM in Italy rose 14%; MTS money markets (repo) value traded increased 21% and fixed income cash markets value traded declined 4%

- announcement of CurveGlobal, a new interest rate derivatives venture with a number of major dealer banks and CBOE, in line with our open access and partnership approach. Products to be traded on London Stock Exchange Derivatives market and cleared through LCH.Clearnet Group chief executive Xavier Rolet said: "The Group has once again delivered a good performance across our business areas, particularly at LCH.Clearnet and FTSE Russell. The Capital Markets business delivered a robust performance and the new issue pipeline remains encouraging.

"We continue to invest in a wide range of attractive organic growth opportunities, focusing in particular on our Post Trade and Information Services businesses. The Group continues to innovate and partner with customers as we deliver on our strategy to be a leading global, open access market infrastructure business."

The Group expects to announce its Preliminary results for the period ending 31 December 2015 on 4 March 2016.

StockMarketWire.com
London Stock Exchange Group has confirmed it is having talks about a merger with Deutsche Boerse.

Under the terms of the potential merger, LSE shareholders would be entitled to receive 0.4421 new shares in exchange for each LSE share and Deutsche Boerse shareholders would be entitled to receive one new share in exchange for each Deutsche Boerse share.

Based on this exchange ratio, the parties anticipate that Deutsche Boerse shareholders would hold 54.4%, and LSE shareholders would hold 45.6% of the enlarged issued and to be issued share capital of the combined group. The combined group would have a unitary board composed of equal numbers of LSE and Deutsche Boerse directors.

StockMarketWire.com
Intercontinental Exchange has confirmed it is considering making an offer for London Stock Exchange Group.

ICE says no approach has been made to the board of LSEG, and no decision has yet been made as to whether to pursue such an offer. There can be no certainty that any offer will be made, nor as to the terms on which any offer will be made.

StockMarketWire.com
The boards of London Stock Exchange Group and Deutsche Boerse have agreed terms for a recommended all-share merger of equals.

The merger will be implemented through the establishment of a new UK holding company ('UK TopCo') which will acquire LSEG by way of a scheme of arrangement and will acquire DBAG by making a securities exchange offer to all shareholders of DBAG.

LSEG Shareholders will be entitled to receive 0.4421 UK TopCo shares in exchange for each LSEG Share and DBAG Shareholders will be entitled to receive one UK TopCo Share in exchange for each DBAG Share.

Assuming 100% acceptance of the DBAG offer, the merger will result in LSEG shareholders owning 45.6% of UK TopCo and DBAG shareholders owning 54.4% of UK TopCo on a fully diluted basis.

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London Stock Exchange Group and LCH Group Limited have received an irrevocable all-cash offer from Euronext NV to purchase LCH SA, LCH Group's French-regulated operating subsidiary.

LCH SA has commenced a period of consultation with its works council during which LSEG and LCH Group have granted exclusivity to Euronext. LSEG and LCH Group confirmed that the terms and conditions, including the financial terms on which any Transaction would take place if the irrevocable offer were accepted, have been agreed with Euronext offering an all-cash consideration of €510 million to be adjusted for surplus regulatory capital movement between 30 June 2016 and completion of the transaction.

LSEG will use any proceeds it receives for general corporate purposes. The proposed sale of LCH SA would be subject to review and approval by the European Commission in connection with the recommended merger of LSEG and Deutsche Borse AG which was announced on 16 March 2016. It would also be conditional on the successful closing of the Merger.

Reuters - London Stock Exchange (LSE.L) said its proposed merger with Deutsche Boerse AG (DB1Gn.DE) was unlikely to be approved by the European Commission, leaving the stock market operators' third attempt at combining on the brink of failure.

The LSE said in a statement late on Sunday that the commission had asked it to sell its 60 percent stake in fixed-income trading platform MTS to satisfy antitrust concerns over the merger of Europe's two largest market operators.

Calling the request "disproportionate," the British exchange said it believed that it would struggle to sell MTS and that such a sale would be detrimental to its ongoing business.

"Based on the commission's current position, LSE believes that the commission is unlikely to provide clearance for the merger," it said.

The exchange added that it would still work to make the merger with Deutsche Boerse succeed, but that would be impossible unless the commission changed its position.

In a separate statement, Deutsche Boerse attributed the decision to LSE alone. LSE "resolved tonight to not commit to the required divestment of LSEG's majority stake in MTS," Deutsche Boerse said, adding that it expected a final decision from the commission by the end of March.

The commission declined to comment.