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The mount of rival trading platforms has caused profits at the London Stock Exchange to plunge ~ means of nearly a fifth.

The granddaddy of share trading in London today reported a be transferred in operating profits before exceptional charges to £280 million in the year to the end of March from &levigate;340 million last time.

The LSE is reckoned by Thomson Reuters, the fiscal information house, to have seen its share of trading in FTSE 100 reserve fall to below 50 per cent in recent months. That has been the product of the rise of rival exchanges, the so-called MTFs — multilateral mercantile platforms — such as Chi-X and BATS Trading.

Chris Gibson-Smith, the LSE chair said: “The market, economic and regulatory environment in which our avocation operates is going through a period of significant change.

“We stay to take steps to ensure the business remains central to chief city markets, competing for business as an efficient, low-cost and retainer -focused organisation with a clear strategy to deliver growth and utility.”

Xavier Rolet, the LSE chief executive, added: “We recognise that in that place remains much work to be done and that, in many cases, the fruits of our labour to affix a ~ to have yet to be harvested.” His plans have included reductions in fees, wounding post-trade costs and diversification by adding new businesses.

The decrease in profits came on the back of a 6.5 per cent fall in revenues to £628 million. The total dividend for the year is being held at 24.4p.