1 May 2013 - Record volumes were transacted on the London Metal Exchange (LME) in April 2013, with 14,517,213 lots traded.

14 March 2013 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) has selected Citi, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan as key providers of financial infrastructure to LME Clear, its self-clearing platform.

8 January 2013 - The Board of The London Metal Exchange has approved the creation of the LME User Committee.

17 December 2012 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) celebrates another record year with volumes 10% higher and a series of industry awards.

12 December 2012 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) won the FOW award for best new metals product of the year with its LMEswaps contracts.

6 December 2012 - HKEx and LME Holdings are pleased to announce that the acquisition of the entire issued ordinary share capital of LME Holdings by HKEx has completed today.

5 December 2012 - Court sanctions scheme of arrangement and confirms capital reduction

4 December 2012 - LME announces new trading records for November

3 December 2012 - The LME this week visits Mumbai and New Delhi as part of an educational tour of India.

29 November 2012 - FSA approval received

14 November 2012 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) has appointed Adrian Farnham as the chief operating officer for LME Clear.

6 November 2012 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) is pleased to announce that Chris Jones has been appointed as the chief risk officer for LME Clear, marking an important step in the LME’s self-clearing programme.

2 October 2012 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) experienced record volumes in September, with 14.09 million lots traded.

15 August 2012 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) minor metals contracts have reached $1.0 billion in notional turnover.

25 July 2012 - The board of LME Holdings Limited (“LME Holdings”), the parent company of The London Metal Exchange Limited (“the LME”), is pleased to announce that the ordinary shareholders of LME Holdings have today approved, at a court meeting and an extraordinary general meeting of LME Holdings, all the resolutions required in connection with the proposed scheme of arrangement to implement the acquisition of LME Holdings by Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Limited (“HKEx”).

16 July 2012 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) has selected Cinnober, the Swedish software house, as the core technology provider for its clearing house, LME Clear.

15 June 2012 - The board of LME Holdings Limited ( “LME Holdings”), the parent company of The London Metal Exchange Limited (“LME Limited”), announces that on 15 June 2012, LME Holdings, HK Investment (UK) Limited (“HKEx Investment”) and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (“HKEx”) entered into a framework agreement regarding the terms of a recommended cash offer (the “Offer”) for the entire issued and outstanding ordinary share capital of LME Holdings by HKEx Investment, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of HKEx (the “Transaction”) (the “Framework Agreement”).

8 June 2012 - LME Holdings Limited announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today, all the resolutions put to the Ordinary shareholders were duly passed on a poll.

22 May 2012 - The Chairman of the London Metal Exchange (LME) has today issued an update to shareholders regarding the potential acquisition of the Exchange.

17 May 2012 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) plans to move LME Clear staff into dedicated offices close to the main premises in Q3 2012.

8 May 2012 - The Chairman of the London Metal Exchange (LME) has today issued an update to its shareholders regarding the potential acquisition of the Exchange.

2 April 2012 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) saw record volumes transacted in LME Cobalt in March 2012 with 1,310 lots traded, the equivalent of $40 million.

29 February 2012 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) is broadening its education and outreach efforts in Asia amid growing interest in futures trading in the region.

23 February 2012 - The LME announces encouraging volumes in LMEswaps trading since launching the contracts on 23 January 2012.

23 February 2012 - The LME Board has considered points raised by members over the new Exchange User Fee and has, therefore, decided to make a number of amendments.

22 February 2012 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) announces record market open interest in LME Cobalt two years after the launch of its minor metals contracts.

6 February 2012 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) today will begin publishing live forward prices for all metals traded in the last Ring session of the day.

23 January 2012 - London Metal Exchange launches LMEswaps The London Metal Exchange (LME) today launched LMEswaps for all of its non-ferrous metals. The financially settled contracts based on the average monthly price are the first of their type to be traded on-exchange in the world. They are designed for participants of the physical industry who need to hedge the monthly average price. READ MORE

20 December 2011 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) saw record volumes transacted in cobalt on Monday 19 December with 326 lots traded, the equivalent of $10 million.

19 December 2011 - The Board of the London Metal Exchange (LME) has taken decisive steps for the market's future with an agreement for the Exchange to pursue self clearing of trades and to increase revenue through a new charge on client contracts.

14 December 2011 - The LME Steel Billet prices will be available for all subscribers to LME market data from 1 January 2012 in response to industry requests for reliable and transparent daily steel pricing.

13 December 2011 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) will introduce financially settled swaps for all non-ferrous contracts on 23 January 2012.

9 December 2011 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) Steel Billet contract has grown substantially in 2011 with record volumes, new location and brand listings, and industry recognition at the American Metal Market’s (AMM) Awards for Steel Excellence.

6 December 2011 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) has completed a major upgrade to its electronic trading platform to offer users of the market faster access and more features.

8 November 2011 - Trevor Spanner yesterday joined the LME as managing director of post-trade services, a key step in the LME’s project to take greater control of its clearing business.

19 October 2011 - The LME saw record volumes transacted on the Ring on Friday 14 October.

17 October 2011 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) today extends its range of published Official Prices to include forward December prompt dates, which will replace the 15- and 27-month forward prompts.

6 October 2011 - The LME is to visit four Chinese cities from 21-30 November 2011 as part of an educational tour of the country

3 October 2011 - The LME experienced record volumes in September, with 13.97 million lots traded, up 45% from the corresponding month in 2010.

30 September 2011 - The board of the London Metal Exchange (LME) today announced that INTL FCStone (Europe) Ltd have been approved as an Associate Broker Clearing member.

26 September 2011 - LME saw record of 108,708 transactions on 23 September 2011.

22 September 2011 - The LME is working with the Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnership to provide bursaries and professional mentoring to school students.

21 September 2011 - The LME is joining the UK government’s goodwill trade mission to Turkey this week to further links between the UK and the Turkish steel industry.

19 September 2011 - The LME has appointed Trevor Spanner as managing director of post-trade services.

14 July 2011 - The London Metal Exchange has received the first delivery of steel into New Orleans with the warranting of 3,315 tonnes.

13 July 2011 - The LME has seen 10,542 lots traded (14,337 tonnes) of cobalt and molybdenum since launching the contracts last year.

11 July 2011 - LME non-ferrous trading up 16 per cent with 68.6 million lots traded in H1 2011.

23 June 2011 - The LME Steel Billet contract has won a prestigious annual award for innovation at the AMM Awards for Steel Excellence.

17 June 2011 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) has approved Ravenna as the latest point of good delivery for LME Steel Billet, with effect from 16 September 2011.

20 May 2011 - The Annual General Meeting of LME Holdings Limited took place at the London Metal Exchange today and all resolutions were passed.

3 May 2011 - The LME is giving serious consideration to the possibility of building its own clearing house

6 April 2011 - Trading in steel billet at the London Metal Exchange has rocketed in the first quarter of 2011, up 305 per cent compared with the corresponding period last year.

22 February 2011 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) announces that the first twelve months of trading in cobalt and molybdenum has concluded with good volumes since the launch on February 22nd 2010.

15 February 2011 - LME-SGX copper, aluminium and zinc futures unveiled to give Asian retail investors easy access to global metals markets.

27 January 2011 - The LME's new US storage facilities for steel billet saw their first delivery yesterday with 325 tonnes delivered into Chicago.

24 January 2011 - New unofficial three month futures prices to be published for LME copper, LME aluminium and LME zinc at the end of the Asian trading day

20 January 2011 - XML-based data feed provides a comprehensive record of the previous day's trading data from the Exchange.

6 January 2011 - Total trading up 7.4 per cent to 120.3 million lots traded in 2010.

20 December 2010 - The board of directors of the LME has approved the membership application of Tullett Prebon (Europe) Limited to become an Associate Broker Clearing Member (‘category 2’) of the LME.

6 December 2010 - LCH.Clearnet Limited (LCH.Clearnet), the global leader in clearing, today launched clearing for the over-the-counter (OTC) wholesale London gold market in a joint initiative with the London Metal Exchange (LME).

18 November 2010 - New reference prices will provide market with Asian trading indicator and add transparency on base metals prices in the region.

17 November 2010 - 10 million tonnes of steel have been traded at the London Metal Exchange (LME) year-to-date in 2010 (equivalent to 153,977 lots), the first time this milestone has been reached in a single calendar year.

11 November 2010 - Singapore Exchange (SGX) and the London Metal Exchange (LME) will jointly launch three new metal contracts on SGX on 15 February 2011. The three metal contracts are copper, aluminium and zinc futures.

21 October 2010 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) has received the first application to register a US brand for delivery against its steel contract, LME Steel Billet.

20 October 2010 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) announces that it will delist its plastics contracts and that the last prompt date for all existing contracts will be Friday 29th April 2011.

1 October 2010 - The London Metal Exchange saw record steel trading in September for the seventh consecutive month, with 27,788 lots of steel billet traded, equivalent to more than 1.8 million tonnes of material.

23 September 2010 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) and the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) will begin collecting data for forward gold rates from September.

7 September 2010 - The LME has approved Antwerp as the fourth delivery location for its cobalt contract.

1 September 2010 - Trading in steel futures on the London Metal Exchange (LME) hit another record level in August, with 24,853 lots traded, equivalent to more than 1.6 million tonnes of material.

23 August 2010 - Total notional value of contracts traded in first six months since launch - $230 million.

17 August 2010 - New delivery locations will further facilitate the use of LME steel billet contract by the US steel industry.

3 August 2010 - Monthly trading achieves new record for the fifth consecutive month - 18,906 lots traded.

28 July 2010 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) announces that it has today completed the merger of its Mediterranean and Far East steel billet contracts into a single, global contract.

28 July 2010 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) and Singapore Exchange (SGX) today said they are jointly developing cash-settled mini monthly metals futures contracts to be traded and cleared through SGX.

27 July 2010 - 59,304,271 lots traded in the first six months of 2010, up 7.5% & year on year.

23 July 2010 - The board of directors of The London Metal Exchange Limited (LME) yesterday approved the membership applications of Standard Chartered and Scotia Bank Europe to become Associate Broker Clearing (also known as ‘category 2’) members of the LME.

8 July 2010 - The London Metal Exchange (LME), the world’s premier non-ferrous metals market, today officially launches its flagship Asia office in Singapore.

6 July 2010 - Contracts to be cleared will be captured via LME’s trade capture system, LMEsmart, with matched bilateral trades submitted to LCH.Clearnet for clearing.

22 June 2010 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) today announced its intention to list New Orleans as the first US delivery location for steel billet, bringing the benefits of price transparency and risk management to the long steel industry in the US for the first time.

1 June 2010 - Monthly trading achieves new record for the fourth consecutive month. Latest surge coincides with addition of New Orleans as delivery location for LME steel.

21 May 2010 - The total value of minor metals traded at the London Metal Exchange has passed the USD$100m mark. This milestone has been reached in just under 3 months following the Exchange’s launch of the world’s first exchange-traded futures contracts for cobalt and molybdenum on 22nd February.

19 May 2010 - Cash trading in molybdenum and cobalt began on the London Metal Exchange today, ahead of the first prompt date – 21st May.

28 April 2010 - Cash trading in molybdenum and cobalt began on the London Metal Exchange today, ahead of the first prompt date – 21st May.

20 April 2010 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) today announces the appointment, with immediate effect, of Sir Brian Bender KCB as Chairman of both its Holdings and Limited Boards.

1 April 2010 - Trading in steel futures on the London Metal Exchange (LME) achieved record levels in March, with 10,662 lots traded.

31 March 2010 - The Annual General Meeting took place at the London Metal Exchange today and all resolutions were passed.

29 March 2010 - Warrants for 5 tonnes of cobalt were issued late last week in Rotterdam, marking the first material to be placed on warrant since the launch of new minor metals futures contracts by the London Metal Exchange (LME) in February this year.

22 March 2010 - More than USD36million of cobalt and molybdenum has been traded in the first month since new futures were launched for these minor metals by the London Metal Exchange (LME) on 22nd February, 2010.

2 March 2010 - The London Metal Exchange will merge its existing Mediterranean (FM) and Far Eastern (FF) contracts in steel billet on 28th July 2010, creating a global steel billet futures contract.

1 March 2010 - Trading in steel futures on the London Metal Exchange reached record levels last week with volumes and market open interest growing substantially.

25 February 2010 - Michael Overlander, Chief Executive of Sucden Financial, and Jim Coupland, Head of Base Metals at Standard Bank, have been re-elected to the Boards of both LME Holdings Limited and The London Metal Exchange Limited.

23 February 2010 - The London Metal Exchange’s new futures contracts in cobalt and molybdenum were actively traded on their first day of trading

22 February 2010 - The London Metal Exchange launched the world’s first on-exchange cobalt and molybdenum futures today and has already witnessed the first cleared trades for both metals.

19 February 2010 - The London Metal Exchange will launch the world’s first cobalt and molybdenum futures contracts to be traded on exchange on Monday.

19 February 2010 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) has submitted a formal proposal to bring trading of Forward Freight Agreements (FFAs) on-exchange in a joint venture with The Baltic Exchange.

16 February 2010 - The LME has restructured its Commercial Department, promoting Chris Evans and Catherine Markey to the roles of Head of Business Development and Head of Education & Marketing respectively.

16 February 2010 - Following requests from members and warehouse agents the London Metal Exchange has decided to postpone the launch of LMEsword until 12 April 2010

15 February 2010 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) has modified the price discovery process for plastics futures contracts traded on the Exchange.

9 February 2010 - The London Metal Exchange will create LME Asia, opening its first overseas office in Singapore in April this year.

9 February 2010 - The LME is pleased to announce that a second long-term physical cobalt contract has been finalised incorporating an LME pricing formula.

5 February 2010 - The London Metal Exchange announces that its Chairman, Donald Brydon, is to step down in the next few weeks to concentrate on his roles with Royal Mail and Smiths Group

15 January 2010 - The London Metal Exchange releases annual trading figures for 2009 today, unveiling the second highest trading volumes in the Exchange’s history.

17 December 2009 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) has listed its first molybdenum brands for delivery against the LME’s new molybdenum contract.

14 December 2009 - The LME today announces its intention to create the world’s first global steel futures contract through merging its existing Mediterranean and Far East contracts.

7 December 2009 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) has paid an interim dividend totalling €3,741,000 (equivalent to €0.29 per share) to holders of Ordinary Shares in LME Holdings Limited.

19 November 2009 - The London Metal Exchange has appointed David Rough as an Invited Director and Rupert Robson as an Independent Director to the board of LME Holdings Ltd.

9 November 2009 - The LME is pleased to announce that the first long-term physical cobalt contract has been finalised incorporating an LME pricing formula.

8 October 2009 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) has launched a new pricing and data service for BlackBerry and new Smart Phones including Apple iPhones and the BlackBerry Storm.

6 October 2009 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) has listed its first minor metals brand – Vale Inco Electrolytic Cobalt Rounds from Canadian producer Vale Inco Limited.

15 September 2009 - The London Metal Exchange has today confirmed that The Rt Hon The Lord Fraser of Carmyllie QC has stepped down from his position as an independent director of the LME Holdings Board.

27 August 2009 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) has confirmed that market participants will be able to start trading new minor metals contracts for molybdenum and cobalt from 22nd February, 2010.

20 August 2009 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) announces that $1 billion USD in steel billet has been traded on the Exchange by industry since the contract was introduced in February 2008.

24 July 2009 - Move will benefit European billet producers, traders and major scrap merchants in Western European looking to hedge

23 July 2009 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) has traded a total of over 2 million tonnes of steel billet 15 months after the contract was introduced on the LME Ring.

13 July 2009 - Under new proposals, LME plastics contracts would only be traded on electronic platform, LME Select, and on telephone market; not in the Ring

10 July 2009 - The London Metal Exchange (LME), the world’s premier exchange for base metals, steel billet and plastics, today issues an unaudited statement for trading volumes during the first six months of 2009.

7 July 2009 - 12,284 lots traded in first half of 2009 representing 798,460 tonnes

8 June 2009 - The London Metal Exchange (LME), the world’s premier non-ferrous metals market, has been highly commended for its business continuity strategy at the annual Business Continuity Awards.

25 May 2009 - George Adcock, Business Manager for Non-Ferrous Metals at The London Metal Exchange (LME), the world’s premier non-ferrous metals market, will address attendees of the BIR World Recycling Convention & Exhibition in Dubai, today.

14 May 2009 - The London Metal Exchange (LME), the world’s premier non-ferrous metals market, will today update industry figures at the CDI Cobalt Conference 2009 in Lisbon, Portugal on the progress of its planned cobalt contract.

11 May 2009 - George Adcock, Business Manager for Non-Ferrous Metals at The London Metal Exchange (LME), the world’s premier non-ferrous metals market, will address attendees of the 14th World Aluminium Conference.

24 April 2009 - The first full year of steel trading on the London Metal Exchange has been very successful, according to Martin Abbott, chief executive of the exchange.

27 March 2009 - Gavin Prentice, managing director and head of commodities at Marex Financial, has been appointed to serve as a Ring Dealing Member (RDM) representative of LME Holdings Limited, and Stephen Branton-Speak, partner at Goldman Sachs, has been appointed to serve as an Associate Broker Clearing Member (ABCM) representative.

27 March 2009 - All resolutions were passed at the annual general meeting of the London Metal Exchange today. These include a resolution to distribute profits as dividends to those shareholders

21 March 2009 - We are very pleased to announce that Stephen White will be joining the LME as Business Manager Corporate Affairs on 27 April 2009.

17 March 2009 - Members of the London Metal Exchange steel committee met for the first time on March 16 and reviewed progress made in the LME billet contracts.

2 February 2009 - The LME is currently operating as normal.

27 January 2009 - The London Metal Exchange is pleased to announce that Nat le Roux has been appointed as Independent Director on the Board of LME Holdings Ltd.

7 January 2009 - Following the successful implementation of LMEselect release 6, the London Metal Exchange has amended its order to trade ratio policy on LMEselect.

5 January 2009 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) achieved another record year in 2008 with over 113 million lots traded, representing a year-on-year increase of nearly 22%.

17 December 2008 - The London Metal Exchange (LME), the world’s premier metals and industrial materials market has reached a turnover equivalent to one million tonnes for its steel billet contracts.

3 November 2008 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) has today upgraded its electronic trading platform LMEselect. The upgrade, which became effective from 01:00 London time this morning, will provide a more robust system that offers operational efficiencies.

7 October 2008 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) has today appointed Diarmuid O’Hegarty as Deputy Chief Executive of the Exchange.

29 September 2008 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) has today launched extended prompt dates for Primary Aluminium, Copper Grade A, Special High Grade Zinc, Primary Nickel and Standard Lead contracts.

11 September 2008 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) has announced Kynetix Technology Group as solution provider for the new LMEsword system.

4 September 2008 - The London Metal Exchange will launch two minor metals contracts in the second half of 2009 for molybdenum and cobalt.

28 August 2008 - The LME steel billet contracts have reached a double milestone with a turnover exceeding quarter of a billion USD ($250m), and over 260,000 metric tonnes or 4,000 lots traded.

24 July 2008 - The London Metal Exchange has today commenced spot or cash trading, marking the end of the launch period, for both the Mediterranean (FM) and Far East (FF) LME steel billet futures contracts.

8 July 2008 - Over 54 million lots traded on the Exchange from January to the end of June across Futures and Options. This represents an increase of 17.5% on 2007 figures, and a turnover of $5.6 trillion in notional value.

26 June 2008 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) has today announced extensions to prompt dates for primary aluminium, copper, zinc, nickel and lead futures contracts will be introduced on Monday 29 September 2008.

28 May 2008 - The LME is to make further enhancements to the plastics contract specifications to provide a more accessible trading and price risk management environment

19 May 2008 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) has announced MillenniumIT Technologies Limited as solution provider for the new LME SMART (System for Matching and Registering Trades) matching system.

9 May 2008 - The London Metal Exchange today announced three new membership approvals by the Exchange following a board meeting on the 8 May.

28 April 2008 - Trading in steel futures commenced on the London Metal Exchange Ring today

15 March 2008 - The London Metal Exchange has today announced it will launch a Cleared Average Price Swap (CAPS) service on Monday 31 March 2008.

11 March 2008 - On 17 July 2007 the Exchange published detailed documentation (the B Share Scheme Documentation) concerning a mechanism to help new applicants for membership of the Exchange acquire the B Shares in LME Holdings Limited (the Company) necessary for membership (the B Share Scheme).

28 February 2008 - The London Metal Exchange has today announced the appointment of Liz Milan as Director, Commercial Department and Craig Hewett as Deputy Director.

25 February 2008 - Trading in two steel billet futures contracts; Mediterranean and Far East, commenced today on the London Metal Exchange (LME).

6 February 2008 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) has today launched its own online steel hedging simulator.

24 January 2008 - The London Metal Exchange (LME) will extend the prompt dates for the following futures contracts