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UK: Regulator raises red flag on ICE-Trayport deal

By  |  August 16, 2016

Intercontinental Exchange may be forced to sell Trayport, an electronic trading venue it bought last year, after UK antitrust authorities raised concerns that the $650m purchase could give ICE a commanding position in European energy trading.

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    The investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority found the deal may lead “to a substantial lessening of competition” and laid out a series of potential remedies. The most drastic would be a sale, although it added that it would also consider changes to ICE’s behaviour or structure to prevent customers and rivals from suffering from a lack of competition.

    London-based Trayport is recognised as the pre-eminent platform connecting energy traders, brokers, utilities and resource companies to the market’s electronic trading and clearing systems.

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