Exchange Data Revenues Make Positive Start to 2015

Acquisitions made up for some shortfalls in exchange revenues

The London Stock Exchange’s information services business generated £100 million in revenues in Q4, with its FTSE index business generating £48.2 million of that, compared to £48.3 million in the previous quarter, and up against £44.2 million for FTSE in Q4 2013. Recent acquisition Russell Indexes, which LSE included in its results for the first time, generated £10 million in December. For the financial year, FTSE revenue rose 14 percent, though the LSE’s overall real-time data revenue fell 11 p