The FINANCIAL -- NASDAQ OMX Europe ("NEURO") on September 10 announced its intention to offer trading in blue chip securities listed on Budapest Stock Exchange, Warsaw Stock Exchange and Prague Stock Exchange.

The FINANCIAL -- NASDAQ OMX Nordic, part of The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) on September 10 announced it will launch a new portfolio of Norwegian derivatives products available for trading on September 14.

The FINANCIAL -- The PORTAL Alliance LLC, owned by a group of leading securities firms and The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.(sm) (Nasdaq:NDAQ) (NASDAQ OMX), on September 8 announced the formation of The PORTAL Alliance and its intention to operate a platform to facilitate the over-the-counter trading of 144A equity securities among qualified institutional buyers ("QIBs").

The FINANCIAL -- NYSE Euronext (NYX) on September 9 announced it has agreed in principle on a framework with leading liquidity providers and market making firms —BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, Citadel Securities, Citi, Goldman Sachs, TD AMERITRADE and UBS — to sell a significant equity interest in NYSE Amex options, one of the company’s two U.S. options exchanges.