LSE says looks forward to completing merger with Deutsche Boerse

Reuters

Published Feb 02, 2017 08:39

Updated Feb 02, 2017 08:50

LSE says looks forward to completing merger with Deutsche Boerse

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The London Stock Exchange (L:LSE) said it welcomed that Deutsche Boerse's (DE:DB1Gn) chairman backed its chief executive in the face of an insider trading probe and said it looked forward to completing a planned merger between the two exchange operators.

Frankfurt prosecutors are investigating a share purchase by Deutsche Boerse Chief Executive Carsten Kengeter in December 2015, just over two months before merger talks between the two groups were publicly announced.