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[ I N T E R V I E W | S T É P H A N E B O U J N A H ] impending double volume caps. We are very competitive from a fee perspective. We have strong local relationships that we are leveraging to capture incremental liquidity. We are confident in developing this beyond the basic competition and existing block venues. creating transparency. Some players used the oppor- tunities to open up competition on the assumption that they were not transparent markets, but we believe competition is better in a transparent environment. HM: How has the Euronext Block MTF performed under MiFID II so far this year? SB: Euronext Block offers potential for price discovery and price improvement and full use of the large in scale waiver under MiFID II. All trades will sit outside of the HM: How do you think the acquisi- tion of ISE positions Euronext for Brexit? SB: Let me underline, because this is important, that we decided to acquire the ISE irrespective of Brexit. Ireland is a great country with a 3.8% growth prospect in 2018. The ISE is a great company with fantastic management and product offering that will contrib- ute to the diversification of our volume driven line. It’s pretty clear now that in a post-Brexit world, whatever that may look like, that four cities are going to receive substance from the City of London players who will have to relocate to the European Union in order to provide financial services to European clients. Those four cities are Frankfurt, Paris, Amsterdam and Dublin. Out of those four cities, three of them (Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin) are in the Euronext family. I do believe those four cities are all very different, have their specificities and are fundamentally adapted and convenient for different players. So there won’t be a single winner in the post-Brexit world, but there will be distributed financial centres within the European Union. In this respect Dublin is a very important location due to the strength of the asset management industry there and the fact it is a plug and play location for anyone who takes the decision later than others to relo- cate. We are very happy that three of the main cities that are going to benefit from the relocation of Issue 55 // TheTradeNews.com // 55