HKEX ditching LSE bid puts year’s biggest loan back on track

Mike Turner

October 08, 2019 02:15 pm

LSEG PA 230x150 — File photo dated 06/02/18 of the London Stock Exchange sign in the City of London. The London Stock Exchange Group (LSE) has kick-started its preparations for a hard Brexit, warning that the terms of the UK's exit are still "unclear". | Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire/PA Images

The London Stock Exchange’s $13.5bn bridge loan for its acquisition of data company Refinitiv is set to go ahead, after a surprise hostile bid for the exchange from Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing was withdrawn.

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Mike Turner

Corporate Debt Editor