In an ironic coda to Big Bang, which saw the stock-exchange' s member firms gobbled up by foreign owners, the LSE— since2001 a listed company itself— is under siege from NASDAQ, an American exchange, which already owns25% of its shares.
伦敦证券市场正面临着「大变革」之后一个戏剧性的结局:由于伦敦股票交易所在2001年自身已经上市,美国的股市那斯达克(ASDAQ)虎视眈眈地盯着它,并已经获得了它的25%份。