<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><shares><share isin="GB00B0SWJX34" symbol="LSE" industry="Financial, investment & other diversified comp." sector="Financial" name="London Stock Exchange plc" address="10 Paternoster Square, London, EC4M 7LS, UK" website="www.londonstockexchange.com" summary="London Stock Exchange plc is engaged in the admission of securities for trading, the delivery of trading systems, clearing and settlement of trading in securities and the provision of associated information services. It has six segments: Issuer, Trading, Information, Post Trade, Corporate and Other. More than 600 firms worldwide trade as members of the London Stock Exchange. Its systems provide trading, allowing investors and institutions access to equity, bond and derivatives markets. It acts as a central counterparty guaranteeing parties to a trade will be paid and securities will be delivered, as well as a Central Securities Depository and securities settlement system, creating netted settlement instructions, making the actual payments and delivering securities. It is also a custodian of securities. On October 1, 2007, the Company merged with Borsa Italiana S.p.A. In September 2007, Qatar Investment Authority's subsidiary, Qatar Holding LLC, acquired a 20% stake in the Company."></share></shares>
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