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LSE slashes fees as it steps up battle against emerging rivals

By Jeremy Grant

Published: September 1 2008 03:00 | Last updated: September 1 2008 03:00

The London Stock Exchange will today introduce deep fee cuts and incentives for traders in the latest sign Europe's exchanges are ratcheting up efforts to defend themselves against a wave of new entrants in equities trading.

The move comes as Nasdaq OMX Europe, one of the new entrants, will today appoint Citigroup to provide electronic routing of orders from its new trading platform to others in Europe.

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