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Former Goldman Sachs and Instinet executives have been approached about the chief executive role at Europe's newest equity trading venue.
Plato Partnership, a planned not-for-profit trading venue founded last year by a group of investment banks and money managers, is due to go live in early 2016 and is in the process of recruiting a CEO and finalising its formal structure.