Stock Exchanges Industry Competitors

Italian may be the language of love, but English is the language of money. Borsa Italiana was swept off its feet by the London Stock Exchange, which bought the Italian exchange in 2007. Operational since 1998, Borsa Italiana lists some 700 companies....

First there was one. The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) may no longer be the only options exchange, but it's still the US leader in overall volume. Member-owned and founded in 1973 by the Chicago Board of Trade (which is now part of CME Group), CBOE lists options on more than 1,900 stocks, as well as on interest rates, broad-based stock indexes (such as Standard & Poor's S&P 500 Index), and industry indexes....

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited is Hong Kong's only stock and futures exchange. Founded in 1989, the firm became a holding company for exchanges and clearing houses including The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company, and Hong Kong Futures Exchange following market reform in 2000....

The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) has been a platform for securities exchange since 1994. NSE offers trading of a variety of types of securities, including equity, corporate debt, central and state government securities, commercial paper, and certificates of deposit....

What US exchange was formed in 1872 as the Butter and Cheese Exchange? NYMEX Holdings' subsidiary, the New York Mercantile Exchange. More than 135 years after its tasty-sounding start NYMEX was acquired by CME Group in 2008. The combination forms the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange....

PLUS Markets Group can be a plus for companies not included on the London Stock Exchange. The group (formerly OFEX Holdings) operates the OFEX stock market, a securities trading venue for some 130 companies (generally small to medium-sized) that aren't listed on the London Stock Exchange....

Chinese companies looking to trade their stocks domestically do so on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The exchange was created in 1990 and includes some 540 listed companies and 35 million registered investors. With a market capitalization of $122 billion, the Shenzhen exchange sees an average of 600,000 deals completed on a daily basis, totaling about $807 million....

Don't confuse AMEX (The American Stock Exchange) with that credit card in your wallet. The exchange provides a floor-based auction market that specializes in stocks, bonds, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). AMEX lists primarily small and midsized companies and newer issues, and is the US's second-largest options exchange (behind the Chicago Board Options Exchange)....

ASX Limited is the stock market for the Land Down Under. The company, which operates as the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), is one of the largest exchange groups in the world, listing more than 2,000 stocks. Before the creation of the ASX in 1987, Australian stocks could be traded on six different exchanges based in state capitals such as Sydney, Melbourne, and Hobart....

Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME), a leading European stock exchange operator, has holdings that include Spain's four stock exchanges: Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, and Valencia. Operational since 1856, BME lists more than 3,000 companies. Its services include public offerings and trading facilities for equities, fixed-income securities, and derivatives....

CME Group doesn't tell futures, but it does sell them. The company owns the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, launched in 1898 as The Chicago Butter and Egg Board, and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), the futures exchange that it acquired for approximately $12 billion in 2007....

If Deutsche Börse's trading volume doesn't dominate European trading, maybe its trading technology will. Deutsche Börse provides a securities exchange platform through the Frankfurt Exchange, derivatives trading on the Eurex market (one of the world's largest), market information with the DAX index and the STOXX index (33%-owned), and clearing services with subsidiary Clearstream....

You're next on the Euronext Amsterdam exchange if you'd like to buy or sell Dutch stocks. Euronext Amsterdam is one of the component exchanges of Euronext, the multinational exchange that operates through bourses in Paris, Brussels, and Lisbon....

Next up: Euronext Brussels. The Belgian stock market is one of the component exchanges that make up Euronext, which, when taken as a whole, is the second-largest bourse in Europe after the London Stock Exchange....

First Europe, then the world? Euronext, formed by the merger of the Paris, Brussels, and Amsterdam exchanges, lists more than 1,200 companies and offers investors, issuers, and intermediaries trading and other exchange-related services through a single platform....

After ages as La Bourse de Paris, the next step for the Paris stock exchange was to become Euronext Paris. The exchange is one of the component parts of Euronext, which is the second-largest exchange in Europe behind the London Stock Exchange....

International Securities Exchange Holdings (ISE) wants you to consider all of your options. An electronic exchange for options trading, the ISE is the world's largest equity options exchange based on volume. In all, ISE trades some 6,000 products. Besides equity options, it offers forex, ETF, and index options....

The meaning of LIFFE? Easy! It's the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange, one of the world's largest financial derivatives markets. (In this it vies with Deutsche Börse's Eurex and the CME Group)....

There's no trouble in this river city, not for the London Stock Exchange (LSE). As Europe's largest stock exchange (and one of the oldest), the LSE lists some 3,600 depository receipts, Eurobonds, and company shares. The LSE includes the main market, the Professional Securities Market (or PSM, listed debt securities), and the Alternative Investment Market (or AIM, which lists new and growing companies)....

Is older better than bigger? Nasdaq OMX PHLX (formerly The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and known as the PHLX for short) might think so. The exchange, founded in 1790, claims seniority over the larger New York Stock Exchange....