He jokes about how, if every potential parent had to meet his younger self, they'd run a mile from having kids at all, 'and the human race would die out'.

Rumors abound of other potential tie-ups that could see the CME, the parent of the NASDAQ (NDAQ), and other exchanges snap up smaller exchanges.

Not that the parent doesn't love the child, but that the parent doesn't see the potential beauty or the soul in a child, can't really endorse her in some way.