Savings for investors as Europe acts on trading

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Series Details 25.5.11
Publication Date 25/05/2011
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Article reports that after years of inaction, Europe was finally moving in 2011 to streamline a complex matrix of structures that makes share trading much more expensive than in the US.

Aside from 44 exchanges and about a dozen alternative trading platforms, the region has 14 clearing houses and 29 securities settlement systems, a legacy of when markets were held within national borders.

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