
Belgium, Portugal and the Netherlands together with the main deriv-
ative market in the United Kingdom, the London International Finan-
cial Futures & Options Exchange (LIFFE, pronounced ‘life’). Other
merged markets include, The Singapore Exchange (SGX), formed
from the merger of the Singapore International Monetary Exchange
(SIMEX) and the Stock Exchange of Singapore and the joining of the
Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the Hong Kong Futures Exchange to
create HKEx.
Other significant developments have included the approval by the
US Regulators and the launch by Eurex, the German-based exchange,
of a new exchange in the United ...