A Real Donnybrook STOCKHOLM Has gone furthest in privatizing and slashed fees. It's also signing up members outside Sweden LONDON Automating and cutting fees to catch up with Continental competitors and electronic startups FRANKFURT Cutting fees and upgrading its electronic system--probably before closing down stock-trading floors PARIS Offered to buy the Matif futures exchange. Linking its fixed-income derivatives market with Frankfurt and Zurich MILAN Privatized exchange in September and has electronically merged Italy's 10 regional stock markets AMSTERDAM Merging its trading and back-office operations to offer investors one-stop shopping. Plans to privatize by 2002 DATA: COMPANY REPORTS, BUSINESS WEEK Return to main story

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