While the merger talks between NYSEEuronext and the German Stock Exchange are ongoing a report in DW-World, a German news web site cited a quote it said was made by Reto Francioni, CEO of Deutsche Börse to the German business daily Handelsblatt.

"The momentum is going towards the NYSE Euronext system for the stock market...on the derivative side it is probably our system that will be used," he is reported to have said. 

Basildon is the home to NYSE’s European Liquidity Center. The 400,000sq ft data center is paired with another of similar size located in Mahwah, New Jersey in the US.

 

As we reported here back in February, Basildon is a major asset which is likely to be at the heart of any post merger operations.