In the end, U.S. securities regulators may end up fining the exchange group 1% of that.
Cathy Bolshaw, from Stop The Rail Freight Exchange group, called the decision "devastating for St Albans".
Securities laws and Nasdaq's own rules have helped limit the exchange group's expenses from the technical glitches.
Those Asian exchanges are key to creating a truly global exchange group.
The UK's competition regulator has given the London Stock Exchange Group the go-ahead for its planned takeover of clearing house LCH Clearnet.
The dissidents were led by hedge funds angered at the German financial-exchange group's recent attempt to take over the London Stock Exchange.
MarshallCarterMarshall Carter, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange Group, testified that Sarbanes-Oxley has undermined the international competitiveness of our capital markets, prompting international companies to choose to list abroad.
Thain, a dispassionate, numbers-driven executive lacking the back-slapping charisma of a Richard Grasso or a David Komansky, transformed the Big Board from its clubby ways to a global, electronically driven exchange group.
The latest move from Occupy comes after the corporation won its High Court case on Wednesday to evict protesters from outside St Paul's Cathedral, where the Occupy London Stock Exchange group set up its tents on 15 October.
Marshall Carter , the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange Group (nyse: NYX - news - people ), testified that Sarbanes-Oxley has undermined the international competitiveness of our capital markets, prompting international companies to choose to list abroad.
In what was described as a "great U-turn" by the Occupy London Stock Exchange group, the corporation made an offer to allow the protesters to stay until 2012 but urged them to "shrink" the size of the camp to enable it to clear the public highway.
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Enter Luis Juan Virata, chairman and CEO of Jardine Fleming Exchange Capital Group.
Even the high-flying exchange stocks were off: NYSE Group fell 5% and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, now called CME Group, fell 3%.
Exchange operator CME Group and Citadel Investment Group are hoping to change that.
Congress wants that trading to be more like the action on regulated exchanges run by the likes of NYSE Euronext, Intercontinental Exchange and CME Group.
LimeInside currently offers co-location at the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq OMX Group, NYSE Arca and BATS. This service will be extended to Direct Edge, the newest exchange, and the rest of the New York Stock Exchange in a few weeks, Wecker says.
Have each group write up its sampling, method and questions, and then exchange its poll with another group.
Mr. Greifeld said Nasdaq executives relied too heavily on assurances from the exchange's technology group.
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The utility was, in effect, nationalised after the government took a 50.11% stake in the group in exchange for the capital injection.
Almost 6, 000 have signed a Stop the Rail Freight Exchange (STRiFE) group petition, asking the authority to keep Radlett Airfield in Park Street from developers HelioSlough.
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In what was described as a "great U-turn" by the Occupy London Stock Exchange (OLSX) group, the corporation made an offer to allow the protesters to stay until 2012.
Members of the Occupy London Stock Exchange (OLSX) group have been outside the cathedral since 15 October and are protesting against cuts, saying ordinary people should not pay for the financial crisis.
At a breakfast reception in the swanky Fullerton Hotel in downtown Singapore in mid-April, Thomas Kloet, the head of the Singapore stock exchange, and a group of executives step onto a dais.
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We asked another group to exchange an e-mail with a stranger who faced the same decision with a different counterpart, and who indicated that he or she would probably tell the truth, because it was the right thing to do.
Harris, who trades for himself and has had stints as a fund manager and as a board member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, was part of the group that pushed the Merc to relinquish its mutual structure and become the first exchange to go public, in December 2002.
The exchange, through its technology group, has partnered with VMware and its parent, EMC, to provide the cloud-based services.
That latter step is what gutted a rival offer for the Big Board from Nasdaq OMX Group and Intercontinental Exchange.
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Earlier, we saw the London Exchange merging with the TMX Group, in an attempt to create a global competitor to the NYSE Euronext.
After hours trying, the only way your correspondent could exchange money was with a group of young toughs in a grimy alley in a run-down corner of the city.
But the group said if current exchange rates continue, operating profits this year could be reduced by 10%.
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