COMPANIES This week’s three-and-a-half hour outage at the London Stock Exchange may have inconvenienced investors but it has also raised questions over how the UK share dealing market functions when the main market, the LSE, goes down.
Only two years ago, there was barely any alternative to the LSE when its systems crashed. However, in the wake of the Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) new share dealing platforms have challenged the LSE.
