Go figure
S&P pays $44bn for IHS Markit as financial-data providers race for scale
Big fish
In twenty years, stock exchanges have gone from clubby firms to huge conglomerates
Swarming to market
Ant Group announces plans to list in Shanghai and Hong Kong
STAR performer
China’s newest technology stock exchange is thriving despite the pandemic
Raid on the piggy banks
Government kitties have gained clout in the past two decades. Now they face lean years—and potential cash grabs at home
Fare play
Airbus wants to help airlines hedge ticket prices. Will that fly?
For the money, not the few
Wealth managers are promising business-class service for the masses
Flashboys in the pan
An iconoclastic stock exchange loses a battle but not yet the war
As yields turn negative, investors are having to pay for safety
Creditors holding $15trn-worth of bonds have few other places to hide
Woodford, felled
A star manager comes a cropper, leaving pension funds frozen
Voice over
Banks beware: currency trading is entering the modern age
Having its cake
Brexit? The London Stock Exchange is not bothered
Sub par
Europe pointlessly disrupts the way funds cope with negative interest rates
Crashing the party
Wall Street firms take aim at America’s stock-exchange oligopoly
