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So there is no problem about who clears and settles in the proposed mergers between the New York Stock Exchange and Archipelago, an electronic exchange, or between Nasdaq and Instinet, another electronic exchange.
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Later this month, the New York Stock Exchange will finalize its merger with Chicago-based electronic exchange Archipelago Holdings and emerge as a publicly traded NYSE Group with a far heavier emphasis on electronic trading.
In a press conference Friday, Greifeld and other executives involved in the Nasdaq deal made several veiled and not-so-veiled references to their chief competitor, the New York Stock Exchange, which Wednesday made a surprise announcement that it was buying the electronic exchange Archipelago Holdings (amex: AX - news - people ) (see " Thain Taking NYSE Public").
He merged NYSE with Archipelago, an electronic exchange, and then last year with the Parisian Euronext.
Goldman played a similar multicharacter role in 2005 when the New York Stock Exchange bought Archipelago Holdings.
They met on Monday to question last week's merger deal between the New York Stock Exchange and Archipelago Holdings .
John Thain will meet with Wall Street firms that have questioned his plans to merge the New York Stock Exchange with Archipelago Holdings .
Lazard and Greenhill were also brought on as extra advisers in the merger of New York Stock Exchange and Archipelago Holdings , as Goldman Sachs caught heat for being an adviser to both parties.
Some folks are going to get even richer if the New York Stock Exchange does buy Archipelago and goes public.
In America, meanwhile, the all-electronic Archipelago handles trading in stocks, exchange-traded funds and options, and plans to add corporate bonds and futures to its platform.
Late Wednesday, the exchange's chief executive announced a deal to merge with Archipelago , the 8-year-old Chicago-based electronic exchange that specializes in over-the-counter, options, exchange traded funds.
The animosity was so bad that Archipelago, a Chicago-based electronic exchange, had filed complaints with the SEC against the NYSE for ignoring superior stock quotes offered elsewhere up to thousands of times a day.
It advised NYSE Group (nyse: NYX - news - people ) and its merger partner, Archipelago Holdings , last year, despite its financial stake in Archipelago and its seat holdings on the exchange.
Goldman has served as adviser to both seller and buyer, is one of the largest investors in Chicago-based Archipelago, owns more than a dozen exchange seats and has close ties to NYSE's chief executive officer, John Thain, who is a former Goldman president.
During the quarter, Archipelago announced the purchase of the Pacific Stock Exchange, with which it has had a partnership since 2000.
It has a small options operation that it inherited in its merger with Archipelago Holdings, which had acquired the Pacific Stock Exchange last year.
Some people also think he's slightly crazy for going trying to stop the New York Stock Exchange's plans to merge with Archipelago Holdings (nyse: AX - news - people ).
Goldman (nyse: GS - news - people ) investment bankers were placing bets among themselves on the direction of Archipelago's stock the day before the electronic exchange announced its deal to merge with the New York Stock Exchange.
Lazard advised the New York Stock Exchange in its pending reverse merger with Archipelago Holdings (nyse: AX - news - people ). (Goldman Sachs, which first brought the idea to NYSE and Archipelago, is the lead bank on the Lazard IPO).
First he took the company public, in a reverse merger with electronic network Archipelago Holdings, then he forged the first trans-Atlantic exchange merger, with Euronext.
Eisenhofer says the seat holders are prepared to go to trial in mid-November and will file for an injunction to block the deal soon after NYSE and Archipelago file their final S-4, a Securities and Exchange Commission form for shareholders.
By the fall, Archipelago aims to become a full-fledged, all-bits exchange where the time-honored trading floor will be a relic.
By the fall, Archipelago aims to become a full-fledged, all-bits exchange where the time-honored trading floor, with hundreds of humans gesturing furiously and making markets and shaping prices, will be a relic.
The NYSE sent out the text of a memo from Chairman Marshall Carter admonishing a seat holder who has been a vocal critic of the Exchange for his attempts to block a vote to approve the Archipelago merger.
The NYSE sent out the text of a memo from Chairman Marshall Carter admonishing a seat holder who has been a vocal critic of the Exchange for his attempts to block a vote to approve the Archipelago (amex: AX - news - people ) merger.
It merged with Chicago-based electronic network Archipelago Holdings last year and is set to acquire Europe's big electronic exchange, Euronext.
In February, though already enmeshed in negotiations with Archipelago, he appointed a committee to look at the prospects of turning the exchange into a for-profit entity.
Niederauer will look over NYSE's cash equities operations, including institutional and member firm group sales and client services for both the exchange floor and the electronic network acquired in last year's merger with Archipelago Holdings.
Lazard and Greenhill were also brought on as extra advisers in the merger of New York Stock Exchange (nyse: NYX - news - people ) and Archipelago Holdings , as Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) caught heat for being an adviser to both parties.
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