On Wednesday 8 February, the European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager of Denmark, said that the commitments offered the day before by the stock exchange operators Deutsche Börse and the London Stock Exchange (LSE) in order to obtain the European institution's green light for their planned merger would be submitted to a market test.
Only once it has carried out this test will the European Commission be able to make a final decision, Vestager explained.
Deutsche Börse and...