ICE completed TMX Atrium all-cash acquisition. Financial impact will be immaterial to ICE.

SGX offered to open its clearing infrastructure to APEX, a new Singapore commodity futures exchange backed by a Chinese hedge fund. Reported by the Financial Times.

LSE purchased 67.0k shares at 3,366p per share, as part of its £200m repurchase program. Total purchases add 1.10m shares up to date.

NZX revenues from continuing operations increased 3% y/y to NZ$18.6m.

Calypso and R3 are testing their FX trade matching solution on Corda distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform.

DGCX: the recently launched Shanghai Gold Futures contract helped DGCX see a boost in precious metals trading in April.
 
Bloomberg is partnering with Twitter to launch a streaming television news service on the social networking platform, according to WSJ. The channel is expected to begin operations this fall.

SEC: Senate will cast an initial vote today on Jay Clayton’s nomination as Chairman of the SEC.