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Investment Platforms Face Hangover After Pandemic Party
Date: June 13, 2022
By Iain Withers and Carolyn Cohn LONDON (Reuters) – The trillion-dollar retail investment express is losing steam, dampening the fortunes of British trading platforms that boomed during lockdowns on the back of a meme stocks frenzy. Many stock-pickers are steering clear of a turbulent market as living costs rise and the economy teeters, squeezing the...
Depositary Receipt Holders of Russia’s Sberbank, Vtb Face Conversion Headache
Date: June 9, 2022
(Reuters) – Investors holding depositary receipts in Russia’s sanctioned top banks are facing difficulties in converting them into shares after the European Union targeted Russia’s national clearing house with sanctions, sources and analysts told Reuters. Russia’s National Settlement Depository (NSD) was sanctioned last Friday, scuppering Moscow’s plan to use it to service the country’s Eurobonds,...
Euronext Seeks to Create European Tech Profile
Date: June 7, 2022
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Euronext set out on Tuesday a new technology leaders segment to help tech and growth companies develop a pan-European profile for asset managers and other investors. Euronext said its top growth and tech company listings such as ASML, Just Eat Takeaway.com, Tom Tom and Ubisoft now form a new...
Italy’s Saipem Sells Onshore Drilling Business to Kca Deutag
Date: June 1, 2022
MILAN (Reuters) -Italian energy services group Saipem has agreed to sell its onshore drilling business to Britain’s KCA Deutag (KCAD) for $550 million, as it strives to bolster its finances and focus on offshore drilling. Asset sales and a 2 billion euros ($2 billion) new share issue are part of Saipem’s efforts to fund a...
Analysis-Russia’s ‘political’ Debt Default Sets Emerging Market Precedent
Date: May 27, 2022
By Davide Barbuscia and Sujata Rao NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – Russia is on the cusp of a unique kind of debt crisis which investors say would be a first time a major emerging market economy is pushed into a bond default by geopolitics, rather than empty coffers. Until the Kremlin launched an attack on Ukraine...
Why Buy and Build? Choose an Analytics Platform That’s Machine-Tooled for Capital Markets
Date: May 25, 2022
By Matthew Hodgson, CEO and Founder of Mosaic Smart Data It’s fair to say that data analytics providers – like most software firms – come in all shapes and sizes. The market has grown in both size and diversity in recent years, with certain players coming to the fore – but with very different value propositions...