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Financial Markets Leaders Remember the late Magnus Bocker
I asked several leaders around the exchange world to offer remembrances of Magnus Bocker, the late former CEO of SGX. To start, I shall offer my own and add additional remembrances as they come in. I ...
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Magnus Böcker
Magnus Böcker, who led the Singapore Exchange (SGX), Nasdaq and OMX, passed away from cancer in the United States just shy of his 56th birthday. He made his name in the exchange business as a dealmaker who helped to create the Nordic exchange group OMX. He most recently ran the private investment firm Blibros.