It owns 10% of the Oslo Stock Exchange, and 60 other exchanges, depositories and clearing organizations, including the Nordic Exchange, an umbrella term used to describe the stock exchanges of Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius.
There are servers synchronized with the New York Stock Exchange and other exchanges, but many banks are keen on keeping the crown jewels in the server closet not the server farm.
Political influence in Washington will not stem the flow of high-wage trading jobs away from the Mercantile Exchange to decentralized electronic exchanges.
