Budapest Stock Exchange Head Quits

Mihaly Patai, head of Budapest Stock Exchange, has stepped down from his post.

Mihaly Patai, head of Budapest Stock Exchange, has stepped down from his post, Financial Times reports. The move follows a rift between some market participants and majority stakeholder Wiener Börse over the launch of a new trading system.

The soaring tension amid the group’s Austrian owners and Hungarian dealer-brokers over the cost of the Xetra platform led to Patai’s resignation. The exchange is facing local resistance for setting up a network of central and east European stock exchanges.

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