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By Prof. Dr. Bruno Colmant, Professor at Vlerick Business School and Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Former President Euronext Brussels
The Brussels Stock Exchange is reaching a dangerous point, i.e. the question regarding its existence. Its geographical autonomy has since long disappeared. Today, it involves its functional reality. This situation is not the result of a particular loss of interest in venture capital, for it is a reality which is shared by all stock markets.
The question is considerably more fundamental; it concerns the continued existence of a small local stock exchange in an international financial space. Indeed, where is the logic behind having a domestic stock exchange where more than 95% of the big societies are dealt with...
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