The London Stock Exchange handed its chief executive Xavier Rolet, who is set to step down after its planned merger with Deutsche Börse, a pay package worth £6.6 million for 2015 – the highest annual package since he joined the group – and is set to hike his salary to reflect his success at the helm.

In its 2015 annual report, published on March 22, the LSE said that Rolet received total remuneration of £6.6 million for the year, including a base salary of £746,000, an annual performance bonus of £1.6 million, of which 50% is deferred, and vesting shares from a long-term incentive plan worth just over £4 million.