NYSE Euronext, (LTS:0M8S) LT-Debt-to-Total-Asset : 0.17 (As of Sep. 2013)

NYSE Euronext, Inc., a Delaware corporation, was organized on May 22, 2006 in anticipation of the combination of the businesses of NYSE Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and Euronext N.V., a company organized under the laws of the Netherlands. The Company is a global operator of financial markets and provider of trading solutions. The Company offers an array of products and services in cash equities, futures, options, swaps, exchange-traded products, bonds, clearing operations, market data, commercial technology solutions and carbon trading, all designed to meet the evolving needs of investors, issuers, financial institutions and market participants. The Company consists of three business segments: Derivatives; Cash Trading and Listings; and Information Services and Technology Solutions. Derivatives segment is comprised of derivatives trading and clearing businesses and includes its subsidiaries NYSE Liffe, NYSE Liffe Clearing, NYSE Liffe US, NYSE Amex Options, NYSE Arca Options and joint venture NYPC as well as its related derivatives market data business. Cash Trading and Listings segment consists of cash trading and listings businesses and includes its subsidiaries the NYSE, Euronext, NYSE Amex, NYSE Arca, NYSE Alternext, NYSE Arca Europe and SmartPool, as well as NYSE Blue and Interbolsa, and its related cash trading market data business. Information Services and Technology Solutions segment refers to its commercial technology transactions, data and infrastructure businesses. The Company operates a commercial technology business, NYSE Technologies Inc., and also owns NYFIX, Inc., a provider of solutions that aims to optimize trading efficiency. NYSE Technologies provides comprehensive transaction, data and infrastructure services and managed solutions for buy-side, sell-side and exchange communities. NYSE Technologies' integrated solutions power the trading operations of global financial institutions and exchanges, including non-NYSE Euronext markets in addition to all the exchanges in the NYSE Euronext group. NYSE Technologies operates five businesses: Global Market Data, which offers an array of global market information products covering multiple asset classes; Trading Solutions, which creates and implements high performance, end-to-end messaging software and real-time market data distribution and integration products; Exchange Solutions, which provides multi-asset exchange platform services, managed services and expert consultancy; Global Connectivity, which offers a financial transaction network connecting firms and exchanges worldwide; and Transaction Services, which mainly comprises the former NYFIX FIX business, and which incorporates the NYFIX Marketplace and FIX Software businesses. NYSE Liffe US, NYSE Arca and NYSE Amex face considerable competition in derivatives trading. Their main U.S. competitors are the CME Group Inc., Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc., the International Securities Exchange Holdings, Inc