EURONEXT_Registration_Document_2017

2017 WAS A STRONG YEAR WITH KEY MILESTONES REACHED FOR EURONEXT. WE LAUNCHED GROWTH INITIATIVES, RESOLVED THE UNCERTAINTIES RELATED TO CLEARING, SECURED THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT ACQUISITIONS SINCE OUR IPO, DELIVERED THE FIRST COMPONENTS OF OPTIQ® AND BECAME MIFID II COMPLIANT. OVER 2017, EURONEXT INVESTED OR COMMITTED OVER €300 MILLION IN 8 COMPANIES , ALLOWING US NOTABLY TO EXPAND INTO NEW ASSET CLASSES AND FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE OUR IPO, OPEN THE FEDERAL MODEL TO ANOTHER EUROPEAN EXCHANGE.

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RENEWAL OF THE REFERENCE SHAREHOLDER AGREEMENTS

BUILDING UP THE CORPORATE SERVICES OFFERING

DIVERSIFYING ASSET CLASSES: ENTERING INTO SPOT FX MARKETS

PROVIDING WITH NEW INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO POWER CAPITAL MARKETS

Early 2017 , Euronext acquired a 51% majority stake in Company Webcast, a Dutch company specialised in professional webcast and webinar services, adding high-end webcast and webinar solutions to its offering. The franchise was strengthened with the acquisition of a 60% stake in iBabs, a leading Dutch provider of dematerialised board portal solutions for corporate and public organisations, in July 2017 marking the achievement of a significant milestone in the development of the Euronext Corporate Services franchise. All these solutions are integrated into the Euronext Corporate Services offering alongside existing services, part of the Agility for Growth initiatives.

In August 2017 , Euronext completed the acquisition of 90% of FastMatch, Inc., for – the fastest growing Electronic Communication Network in the spot Foreign Exchange market with leading- edge technology, entrepreneurial spirit and access to a large, transparent and diversified pool of liquidity at unrivalled speed and capacity. Consistent with Euronext’s “Agility for Growth” strategy, this transaction diversifies Euronext’s top line, accelerates its growth profile and allows the group to extend its “best execution” value proposition to an additional asset class.

In March 2017 , through a JV and a minority investment, Euronext entered into a strategic collaboration with Algomi, a leading Fixed Income technology provider, resulting in Euronext Synapse, a new MTF that connects pools of liquidity and market participants within a new anonymous inter- dealer centralised market place. Euronext Synapse links banks and their customers together for liquidity, execution and reporting services with the appropriate level of protection for fixed income markets. Euronext also participated in the launch of LiquidShare, a dynamic and innovative company which core objective is to improve SME’s access to capital markets, improving the transparency and security of post-trading operations using blockchain.

In June 2017 , Euronext’s Reference Shareholders decided to extend an amended version of their Reference Shareholders Agreement, with a reduced aggregated holding of 23.86% of Euronext share capital, locked until June 2019. The former Reference Shareholders group previously held 33.36% since Euronext’s IPO. This new RSH Agreement maintains a core group of long-term, pan-European shareholders committed to support the growth strategy of Euronext, while the reduction of the number of shares held by the RSH increased Euronext’s free float.

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2017 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT

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