Fintech Firm Clear Street Joins LME as Floor-Dealing Broker

  • Clear Street sets up UK arm in global expansion drive
  • Move boosts the LME floor’s prospects after several departures

Traders on the trading floor of the open outcry pit at the London Metal Exchange.

Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg
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Financial technology firm Clear Street has joined the London Metal Exchange as a dealer on its famous open-outcry trading floor.

The New York-based company has obtained regulatory approvals to set up a UK trading operation, and is joining the LME as part of a broader expansion drive across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, it said in a statement on Wednesday.