The chief executive of Intercontinental Exchange believes the £21 billion tie-up between rivals London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Börse could lead to opportunities for the Atlanta-based exchange to invest in the UK.

ICE's chairman and CEO Jeffrey Sprecher reiterated to analysts on a November 1 earnings call that the the group decided not to make a counterbid for the LSE in the "absence of sufficient information to establish the value of a bid, coupled with our concerns about the effects on the company of a Brexit vote".