Market Structure Partners’ CEO Niki Beattie is often quoted in the financial press on a wide range of international market regulation issues. Find all the links to the articles below.

Niki Beattie is also regularly featured in video interviews across the media and at industry events.

13 Feb 2009
LSE’s Challenges Will Test CEO Rolet’s ‘Top-Drawer’ Reputation
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As Xavier Rolet takes over at London Stock Exchange Group Plc, Europe’s oldest independent bourse, he faces unprecedented competition…

“He’s got to cuts costs, that’s critical,” said Niki Beattie, a consultant to exchanges and who knows Rolet from her years as…

10 Feb 2009
Icap eyes €850m price tag for LCH
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The Icap-led consortium of investment banks planning an offer for LCH.Clearnet is set to bid as much as €850m ($1.09bn) for the European clearer, offering shareholders at least a 10% premium on a rival bid from US giant the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

09 Feb 2009
DTCC and Icap get ready for showdown over LCH.Clearnet
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The proposed acquisition of Anglo-French clearing house LCH.Clearnet by the US Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation was looking like a done deal, but the emergence last week of a consortium considering a counterbid has the rivals set for a stand-off that will test their nerves to the limit.

06 Feb 2009
Ex-Lehman banker frontrunner to lead LSE
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…Goldman Sachs, where he was involved in developing new equity trading models. He also worked at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. Niki Beattie, a consultant and former head of market structure at Merrill Lynch, said: “He’s switched on, he understands the…

16 Dec 2008
Equiduct takes MTF gamble
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…trading venues in one place, showing how much trading there is and whether there was a better price available elsewhere. Niki Beattie, managing director of The Market Structure Practice, a consultancy,  said that as market fragmentation continues, Equiduct…

20 Nov 2008
Turquoise pioneer relishes the competition
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On November 15, 2006 seven of the world’s largest investment banks stunned the European equity market by declaring their collaboration to develop a European trading system.

01 Sep 2008
The fast bowlers arrive
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…platforms are starting out by offering share trading on a pan-European basis, while none of the exchanges has yet to do so. Niki Beattie, a consultant and until recently head of market structure at Merrill Lynch, says: “One of the incumbent exchanges has…

30 Jun 2008
Turquoise clears regulatory hurdle
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Turquoise, the European equity trading system backed by nine investment banks, has cleared the last main hurdle to its planned launch in September by securing regulatory approval.

27 May 2008
Banks attack LSE over netting and clearing
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Two of the largest banks trading UK equities have attacked the London Stock Exchange over a plan to change the way it processes trades and its reluctance to link to a Swiss clearer.

05 May 2008
Exchanges braced for execution revolution
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The evolution of the exchange landscape was a hot topic at last month’s TradeTech conference in France, the first conference since the European Union’s markets in financial instruments directive came into force in November 2007.