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09 March 2012

フィナンシャル・タイムズ紙:LCHクリアネットの所有権取得を計画するLSE(ロンドン証券取引所)


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The London Stock Exchange on Friday unveiled a deal worth up to €463 million to take a majority stake in LCH.Clearnet, in a move that could catapult it into the front ranks of global exchanges and that caps a three-year turnaround of the British bourse by its French chief executive, Xavier Rolet.


The LSE has agreed to pay €19 in cash per share for up to 60 per cent of the privately-held clearing house, which stands between two parties to a trade, ensuring a deal goes ahead if one side defaults.

LCH.Clearnet shareholders will also be entitled to a special dividend of €1 a share after five years, giving a headline value for the deal of €20 per share. Such a figure implies a valuation of €813 million for the whole of the group. Xavier Rolet, LSE chief executive, said the deal was a “landmark” transaction for the LSE.

Securing LCH.Clearnet would give the LSE its own clearing house in the UK, at a time when the exchange business is dominated by groups that already own their clearing and at a time of regulatory upheaval. Regulators are pushing greater use of clearing on the over-the-counter derivatives markets as a way of safeguarding the financial system against large defaults, in turn creating new business opportunities for exchanges, especially those with their own clearing houses.

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