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Banks and asset managers are vying with Europe’s exchanges to develop technology that can deepen the pool of investors in the continent’s capital markets and better compete with Wall Street. The United States has long had a 'consolidated tape' aggregating stock and bond prices from competing trading platforms for investors to spot the best deals, and the European Union and Britain seek to match this over the coming three years. "The purpose of the tape is to democratise access to market data and to make sure that everybody is seeing the full breadth and depth of the market," said Natan Tiefenbrun, president of North American and European equities at Cboe Global Markets, a pan-European stock exchange.
Work to close the gender pay gap and reduce the environmental impact of fast fashion should also be prioritised, the organisation said.