Euronext Paris S.A.

Paris France

 

Company Description

After ages as La Bourse de Paris, the next step for the Paris stock exchange was to become Euronext Paris. The exchange is one of the component parts of Euronext, which is the second-largest exchange in Europe behind the London Stock Exchange. Euronext was created in 2000 after the Paris market joined forces with its counterparts in Brussels and Amsterdam. Later, the Lisbon bourse joined the party, as did the London-based LIFFE derivatives market. Stock traders have kept the Paris bourse busy, under one name or another, since the early part of the 19th century. Euronext Paris is part of NYSE Euronext, which called off its merger with Deutsche Börse in early 2012.