039 Exchange Invest Weekly Podcast

Transcript   Euronext won't bid for BME leaving an electronic vote for the Spanish exchange shareholders on the SiX bid which comes with full BME Board approval.   Helex: great results just as tragically, the recessionary tides are lapping around the Greek foreshore once again.   New Zealand exchange will separate their commercial and regulatory arms.   Euroclear blink on price hikes.    While there is further confirmation that Jeff Sprecher represents good value for ICE and much much more.    My name is Patrick L. Young Welcome to the bourse business weekly digest: It's the Exchange Invest Weekly podcast.     Episode 39 of the Exchange Invest Weekly and my how the world has turned on its head...not just since we launched... - Gosh - since we launched issue 36 or 37!    The old trope that ‘policemen move in groups of three: one to read, one to write and one to keep an eye on all those dangerous intellectuals allowed to roam the streets,’ deserves an airing.    As in many countries, particularly the UK, the police force has descended into idiocy. drones have been following a couple of Ramblers in some of the most isolated spaces in England. There's as good an example of moronic state overkill as any of us can think of.    In the current frenetic atmosphere. Rumor has it that in some nations if you're walking the streets in the company of two easter eggs, you may be guilty of a felony group meeting.    Certainly the one thing that is clear in the course of the past week is that in many nations Two's Company and three is indeed a felony.    In some respects, news flow has reached an eerie calm across the parish. We have done the first round of shouting to protect our markets...While few announcements are being made right now as everybody is in locked in.   Interesting times. And once again, our parish ops and IT teams deserve huge plaudits for their remarkable uptime achievement during this crisis.    FESE the European Federation of Stock Exchanges was amongst the leaders in the course of the last week crying out for open free markets. Something which of course is a clarion call for Exchange Invest    Unprecedented times but exchanges are prepared they underlined in their messages. Bourses are prepared with the coronavirus and these extreme conditions. This of course, in response to a rather disingenuous questionnaire from the AFME Banking Association, trying to shift attention away perhaps, from banking where we know there is a creator strewn landscape of damage across their monopolies of dealing, and let's not even get into lending: We'll talk about that later.    In contrast, exchanges are demonstrating their strong management and planning. Note too that exchanges such as Aquis are open without a single person present in their London or Paris offices.    It was great to see FESE the European Securities Exchange Federation politely and robustly pushing back on unfounded accusations of exchanges being anything other but well prepared to deal with these crises. Bravo to the E...