London Stock Exchange
Stock exchange in the City of London
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| September 2023 | LSEG drew up plans for a new digital markets business to offer trading of traditional financial assets using blockchain technology, with expected launch within a year. |
| August 2023 | LSEG announced intention to retire the Refinitiv name, starting with Refinitiv Workspace becoming LSEG Workspace. |
| December 12 2022 | Microsoft bought a nearly 4% stake in London Stock Exchange Group as part of a ten-year cloud deal. |
| March 3 2022 | The London Stock Exchange declared it would suspend trading in GDR securities for Russian firms, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| April 29 2021 | Sale of Italian Bourse to Euronext was completed. |
| 2020 | Financial Conduct Authority report indicated that approximately 15% of British adults reported having investments in stocks and shares. |
| September 18 2020 | LSEG entered exclusive talks to sell the Italian Bourse to Euronext. |
| August 2019 | Company agreed to buy Refinitiv in an all-share transaction valued at $27 billion. |
| April 25 2019 | Thirteen Extinction Rebellion activists glued themselves together and blocked the entrances of the London Stock Exchange, protesting against the financial industry's impacts. All protesters were arrested for suspected aggravated trespass. |
| January 2019 | Don Robert is appointed as Chairman of London Stock Exchange Group |
| January 22 2019 | LSEG selected its Millennium Exchange matching engine technology for digital asset exchange AAX, marking its first entry into the digital assets economy. |
| 2018 | Sir Donald Brydon's term as chairman of the London Stock Exchange Group concluded. |
| April 2018 | David Schwimmer becomes the Chief Executive of London Stock Exchange Group |
| November 2017 | Xavier Rolet was ousted from his position as Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange Group. |
| May 30 2017 | LSEG announced the acquisition of The Yield Book and Citi Fixed Income Indices for $685 million, adding leading fixed income analytics systems to its portfolio. |
| November 21 2016 | LSEG announced plans to acquire Mergent Inc, a provider of business and financial information on public and private companies. |
| 2015 | London Stock Exchange Group acquired the Frank Russell Company, combining FTSE Group and Russell Indexes to form FTSE Russell, becoming one of the world's largest index providers. |
| 2015 | Chris Gibson-Smith's chairmanship ended, and Sir Donald Brydon succeeded him as chairman of the London Stock Exchange Group. |
| June 26 2014 | LSE announced agreement to buy Frank Russell Co., becoming one of the largest providers of index services. |
| June 2 2014 | LSE joined the United Nations' Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative. |
| July 2012 | LSE bought a 5% stake in Delhi Stock Exchange. |
| April 3 2012 | LSE and LCH shareholders voted to acquire up to 60 percent of LCH clearing operator for 20 euros per share, valuing LCH at 813 million euros ($1.1 billion). |
| October 15 2011 | Occupy London protesters attempted to occupy Paternoster Square, but were prevented by police due to the square being private property. The protesters subsequently moved to the area in front of St Paul's Cathedral. |
| June 29 2011 | LSE Group terminated the merger with TMX Group due to insufficient shareholder approval. |
| February 9 2011 | TMX Group agreed to merge with London Stock Exchange Group in a 'merger of equals'. |
| 2010 | Planned migration to Linux-based trading platform began. |
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