Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), the largest stock exchange in Canada and one of the largest in North America. It opened in 1861 with 18 stock listings and has since become an innovator in securities-trading technology. The Toronto Stock Exchange, which originally used the acronym TSE, was the first North American exchange to replace fractional pricing with decimal pricing (1996), and it was one of the first major exchanges to adopt electronic trading (1997), abandoning its trading floor for a fully computerized system. In 2000 the TSE became part of a publicly traded company, TSX Group Inc.; two years later the exchange adopted TSX as its abbreviation. In 2008 the TSX Group acquired the derivatives market Montréal Exchange Inc. (MX) and changed its name to the TMX Group. Three years later it was announced that TMX and the London Stock Exchange had agreed to merge.