CBOE Holdings has confirmed its plan to buy Bats Global Markets for a total of approximately $3.2 billion, with trading across all asset classes expected to migrate onto a single platform utilising Bats’ proprietary trading technology. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2017, subject to regulatory approvals.
While the Bats-owned Hotspot FX business is not expected to be materially impacted, the combination of CBOE’s futures platform and Hotspot’s spot FX products creates a unique opportunity, Chris Concannon, Bats’ CEO, told Profit & Loss on a media call.
