Texas Stock Exchange Funding, Investors & Competitors

Based in Chicago, CME Group operates exchanges giving investors, suppliers, and businesses the ability to trade futures and derivatives based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign currencies, energy, metals, and commodities. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange was founded in 1898 and in 2002 completed its IPO. Since then, CME Group has consolidated parts of the industry by merging with crosstown rival CBOT Holdings in 2007 before acquiring Nymex Holdings in 2008 and NEX in 2018. In addition, the company has a 27% stake in S&P Dow Jones Indices, making the Chicago Mercantile Exchange the exclusive venue to trade and clear S&P futures contracts. Through CME's acquisition of NEX, it also expanded into cash foreign exchange, fixed-income trading, and collateral optimization.

Intercontinental Exchange is a vertically integrated operator of financial exchanges and provides ancillary data products. Though the company is probably best known for its ownership of the New York Stock Exchange, which it acquired in 2013, ICE operates a large derivatives exchange, too. The company's largest commodity futures product is the ICE Brent crude futures contract. In addition to the exchanges business, which is about 54% of net revenue, Intercontinental Exchange has used a series of acquisitions to create its mortgage technology business (22% of net revenue) and fixed-income and data-services segment (24% of net revenue).

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing is a vertically integrated securities exchange business offering listing, data, trading, clearing and settlement services across equities, debt and derivatives. HKEx, like Hong Kong itself, functions as a gateway between China and the rest of the world. HKEx serves as a preferred listing venue for Chinese companies outside of China and, through the Connect Scheme, offers two-way trading for a growing group of financial products with the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

Deutsche Boerse is a financial exchange company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany. The company primarily generates revenue through its Eurex and Clearstream segments. Eurex allows for the trading and clearing of derivatives. Clearstream offers custody and settlement services for domestic and international securities, as well as collateral management services. Other segments include Xetra, which generates revenue through trading and clearing cash equities, STOXX (an index business), and several others.

London Stock Exchange Group is a fully integrated financial exchange company covering the financial market value chain from primary and secondary markets across multiple asset classes over data, index, and analytics down to clearing and post-trading reporting. With the acquisition of Refinitiv, LSEG generates about two thirds of its revenue from data and analytics including its FTSE Russell and WM/Refinitiv benchmarks as well as data feeds and terminals. The group is also a majority shareholder in Tradeweb, one of the dominant global fixed-income trading venues, as well as LCH, the largest clearinghouse for over-the-counter swaps globally.

Founded in 1971, Nasdaq is primarily known for its equity exchange, but in addition to its trading business (about 22.5% of sales), the company sells market and financial data to investors, offers Nasdaq-branded indexes, and lists companies through its capital access segment (42.5%). Nasdaq's newest segment, financial technology, was primarily constructed through the acquisitions of Verafin and Adenza and has expanded the company into capital management, financial crime, and regulatory compliance software (35%) as it seeks to become a diversified technology company.

Founded in 1973, Cboe controls the largest option exchange in the US, which provides around 60% of the firm's revenue. The company is best known for its proprietary S&P 500 and VIX index options, which it offers through an exclusive contract with S&P Global. The firm moved into US and European equities through the $3.4 billion acquisition of BATS in 2017. Cboe has continued to look to expand internationally, using acquisitions to build a presence in both Canada and Australia.

Singapore Exchange is a vertically integrated securities exchange business, offering listing-, data-, trading-, clearing- and settlement services across equities, debt and derivatives. Singapore Exchange, like Singapore itself, is remarkably outward-facing and offers some of the most liquid and widely traded equity derivative products for various regional markets, including the FTSE China A50 Index Futures.

Euronext is a financial exchange group with trading venues in Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Lisbon, Milan, Oslo, and Paris, covering primarily cash equities, fixed income, and index and single stock derivatives. With the acquisition of Borsa Italiana, Euronext has also taken control of CC&G, the Italian multi-asset clearing house, as well as Monte Titoli, the Italian central securities depository. This complements Euronext’s other CSDs in Norway, Denmark and Portugal. Euronext is the owner of the CAC40, AEX, BEL 20, ISEQ 20, OBX, and PSI 20 indexes.

B3 SA - Brasil Bolsa Balcao is a financial market exchange. Its services consist of trading, clearing, and other post-trade services. The company's activities are carried out through its trading systems and clearinghouses and include transactions with securities, interbank foreign exchange, and securities under custody in the special system for settlement and custody. The company's segment involves: Listed; OTC; Infrastructure for Financing; and Technology, Data and Services. It derives maximum revenue from Listed Segment.

Japan Exchange Group is a vertically integrated securities exchange business, which includes the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Osaka Exchange, and Tokyo Commodity Exchange. JPX ranks among the top five largest stock exchange operators in the world by market capitalization, and its Nikkei 225 and Topix derivatives products are some of the most widely traded derivatives products in the world.

BSE Ltd operates as a stock exchange and is one of the exchange groups in India. The company operates through one segment namely Stock Exchange Operations i.e. Facilitating Trading in Securities and other related ancillary Services, while generating a majority of its revenues through stock exchange activities. It predominantly provides a trading platform for over 5000 companies that are listed on its exchange. The exchange offers various services such as trading in equity, debt instruments, derivatives, and mutual funds. BSE also offers its customers other services such as risk management, market data services, and educational programs. Geographically, the company generates a majority of its revenue from its customers within India.

TMX Group Ltd is a company that operates several markets to provide investment opportunities for its clients. The company has four operating segments: Global Solutions, Insights & Analytics, Capital Formation, Derivatives Trading & Clearing, and Equities and Fixed Income Trading & Clearing. The maximum of its revenue is from Global Solutions, Insights & Analytics, which deliver equities data, index data as well as integrated data sets to fuel high value proprietary and third party analytics, which help clients make trading and investment decisions. The company geographically operates in Canada, USA, UK, Germany, and Other Countries, with maximum revenue from Canada.

Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd is an India-based deemed Stock Exchange recognized under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956. The company facilitates online trading, and clearing and settlement of commodity futures transactions, thereby providing a platform for risk management. The company is a demutualized Exchange and has permanent recognition from the Government of India to facilitate nationwide online trading, clearing, and settlement operations of commodity derivatives. The company derives its revenues from transaction fees, admission fees, annual subscription fees, terminal charges, connectivity income, interest income, dividends from and gains on the sale of investments and other miscellaneous income.

National Stock Exchange is a Mumbai-headquartered electronic stock exchange in India. Launched in 1994, it trades equities, derivatives, currency, commodities, and debt instruments via NEAT trading system. NSE introduced screen-based anonymous trading, T+1 settlement cycles, and dematerialized securities. The exchange operates co-location data centers and clearing through NSE Clearing Limited. It lists over 2,000 companies and handles the majority of India's equity derivatives volume.

PT Takjub Finansial Teknologi operates Ajaib, an Indonesian online stock trading and investment platform founded by Stanford classmates Anderson Sumarli and Yada Piyajomkwan. The Jakarta-based platform lets Indonesian investors trade traditional financial products alongside digital assets, and it reached unicorn status in 2021.