Euronext CEO Meets With Greek FinMin

Pierrakakis said helium was briefed astir the company’s program to make a technology support halfway successful Athens arsenic portion of Euronext’s bid to bargain retired the ATHEXGroup.

Posting connected his Facebook page, the Greek curate extolled the initiative, stressing it demonstrated Greece’s advancement successful its integer transformation, adding the determination was an concern successful the country’s quality capital.

Stéphane Boujnah clarified helium did not mean to travel backmost with a caller bid for the buyout of the Greek Stock Exchange if the existent talks were unsuccessful during a property league earlier connected Monday.

“The connection connected the table is very lucrative,” helium said, pointing retired that the valuation was based connected realistic information and assumptions contiguous successful different European markets successful Euronext’s portfolio.

The caput of Euronext responded “no comment” to a question regarding the contented of the amendment submitted by the Greek authorities astir nationalist offers and delistings of companies from the Athens Stock Exchange. He added lone that it was a European directive that had to beryllium adopted into Greek law.

In the lawsuit the woody with the ATHEXGroup fell through, Boujnah stated it was “not an existential issue” for his company. “If it does not succeed, we will look for different ways to grow successful Southeastern Europe,” helium said.

Responding to different question astir however overmuch caller listings person accrued connected the exchanges Euronext has already acquired, helium emphasized the important emergence successful trading volume and the simplification successful transaction costs but did not code the “inflation” successful the fig of listed companies connected those markets.

Euronext representatives met with representatives of the Greek stock speech past Friday to assuage the employees’ concerns astir imaginable layoffs.