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The OM HEX is a Swedish company in the financial sector. Started as by Olof Stenhammar in the 1980s to introduce trading in derivatives instruments in Sweden by use of standardized options. It acquired the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1998 and unsuccessfully atempted acquisition of the London Stock Exchange in 2001. In 2003 the Helsinki Stock Exchange was acquired and merged with the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
The company is also a world leader in financial instruments trading systems and there are two main divisions of the company. OM Technology, which develops and markets systems for financial transactions and HEX Integrated Markets which represents the merger of the exchanges in Stockholm and Helsinki.
HEX Integrated Markets
See also: List of Swedish companiesExternal links
