Buy outs

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  Corzine: too big to succeed on smaller scale

  By Daniel P. Collins  |  October 31, 2011

  There was a rumor going around — later confirmed by multiple sources — that during Jon Corzine’s initial conversation with MF Global’s vast network of ...

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  Will MF Global make the Monday open?

  By Daniel P. Collins  |  October 31, 2011

  I had a strange feeling of deja vu as I left work on Friday. MF Global had dropped precipitously after a poor second quarter earnings report ...

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  Equity index provider arbitrage

  By Daniel P. Collins  |  October 10, 2011

  When CME Group first announced that it would take a majority stake in Dow Jones Indexes a year ago my first thought was to ask ...

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  Dept. of Justice steps up

  By Daniel P. Collins  |  May 18, 2011

  When I first heard of the Nasdaq OMX/Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) counteroffer for the NYSE Euronext, which has a merger agreement in place with Deutsche Börse, ...

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  Merge this

  By Daniel P. Collins  |  February 15, 2011

  The recent merger announcements from  the London Stock Exchange and Toronto Exchange Group (TMX), and Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext brought a surge of speculation ...

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  Another one bites the dust

  By Daniel P. Collins  |  May 22, 2009

  PFGBEST announced yesterday that it is purchasing the customer assets of non-clearing futures commission merchant Alaron Trading Corporation. This will further shrink the ranks of independent ...

• Who's next?

  By System Import  |  July 18, 2007

  Back in December I wrote a story about the four grain exchanges and the liquidity that was pouring into them as they went electronic on ...

• Is CBOT in too much of a hurry?

  By System Import  |  June 15, 2007

  One financial investor in the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) is saying publicly in a letter to CBOT Chairman Charlie Carey and president and CEO ...

• CME's Donahue stays confident of deal

  By System Import  |  June 1, 2007

  Friday morning, June 1, Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Chief Executive Officer Craig Donohue spoke on a Deutsche Bank CEO conference call. He answered questions ...

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  Open mike night at the ICE

  By Daniel P. Collins  |  June 1, 2007

  “Yesterday, if the Merc matches the [ICE] bid it is a no brainer, now the Merc has to pay a premium—this is a guy with ...