Europe

UK - The London Stock Exchange has agreed to buy financial market software and data services provider Proquote in a bid to enhance its range of products.

UK - Proposed reforms to stop auditors offering extra consultancy services to clients have been slammed by corporate governance experts for not being tough enough.

UK - Unions are urging trustees to look at how fund managers vote on key corporate governance issues when they hire them.

UK - Britain's biggest firms are bowing to pension fund pressure over carbon emission reports.

UK - Scottish Life has extended its no policy fee offer on its range of Talisman personal and executive pensions until April 5.

UK - There will be more people over 65 than under 16 within a decade, the Office of National Statistics' Social Trends reports.

UK/US - UK pension funds and insurers are backing a US campaign which aims at a "full separation" of the roles of chairman and chief executive.

UK - Jardine Lloyd Thompson Employee Benefits Group has agreed in principle a new contract for the provision of services to a range of AMP Group products.

BELGIUM/NETHERLANDS - JPMorgan Investor Services has been appointed by AXA Investment Managers as information and paying agent in Belgium and the Netherlands for its E258m range of exchange traded funds it now wishes to distribute across Europe.

UK/US - Barclays Global Investors is to launch a large-cap Chinese equities exchange traded fund that will be available to US and UK schemes.