ICE places a third of Euronext ahead of IPO

Andrew Griffin

May 29, 2014 05:15 pm

Euronext — New York Stock Exchange Group chief executive officer John Thain, third from left, NYSE Group chairman Marshall Carter, second left, Euronext executives Jean-Francois Theodore, second from right and Jan-Michiel Hessels, right, applaud the first quotation during a ceremony held at the former Paris Stock Exchange building Palais Brognard in Paris, Wednesday April 4, 2007. Exchange executives counted down the seconds to the opening of trading in Paris. NYSE-Euronext is the first trans-Atlantic stock market and the world's biggest, with a market capitalization of 22.3 billion Euro (US$29.7 billion). Euronext operates the Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon and Paris stock exchanges and London's Euronext.Liffe derivatives exchange. Man at left is unidentified. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere) | REMY DE LA MAUVINIERE/AP

InterContinentalExchange (ICE) has placed a third of stock exchange operator Euronext with European financial institutions in its key markets in a deal that could allow the owner to fully exit the company in an IPO launched on Tuesday.

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