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Building Resilience in EU Equity Markets

In complex systems like financial exchanges it is inevitable that issues and even outages occur from time to time. However, why do outages on the primary market cause trading to stop on other exchanges? Why aren’t volumes moving to MTFs? What are the downstream effects of these systemic fragilities and what can be done to improve them? We hope to spark a discussion on the steps needed to build resilience in EU equity markets which would undoubtedly benefit all investors and European capital market participants.