Background Euronext was formed on NUMBER@1 September NUMBER@2 following a merger of the ORGANIZATION@1 , ORGANIZATION@2 , and ORGANIZATION@3 , in order to take advantage of the harmonisation of the ORGANIZATION@4 financial markets .

ORGANIZATION@5 was created on September NUMBER@1 NUMBER@2 , when the stock exchanges of LOCATION@1 , ORGANIZATION@2 and ORGANIZATION@3 were joined together in a merger .
