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Aim's strengths may obviate need for doom and gloom
Cost-effective flexibility and rapid dealmaking continue to attract companies amid a diminishing small-cap sector
Categories: Financial services
Aim's strengths may obviate need for doom and gloom
Cost-effective flexibility and rapid dealmaking continue to attract companies amid a diminishing small-cap sector
Categories: Financial services
Premium growth bolsters Admiral
The FTSE 100 car insurance group posts the gain in the six months to June, lifted by rising sales and prices that offset a slump at Confused.com, its price comparison website
Categories: Financial services
Premium growth bolsters Admiral
The FTSE 100 car insurance group posts the gain in the six months to June, lifted by rising sales and prices that offset a slump at Confused.com, its price comparison website
Categories: Financial services
Standard Life backs Minerva
One of Minerva's largest investors hits back at Nathan Kirsh's attempts to dislodge members of the London property developer's board, ramping up a war of words surrounding the indebted group
Categories: Financial services
Standard Life backs Minerva
One of Minerva's largest investors hits back at Nathan Kirsh's attempts to dislodge members of the London property developer's board, ramping up a war of words surrounding the indebted group
Categories: Financial services
DTCC to take 10% stake in Chilean peer
Move highlights how post-trade businesses such as clearing and settlement are moving cross-border as trading of stocks, derivatives and bonds becomes more global
Categories: Financial services
DTCC to take 10% stake in Chilean peer
Move highlights how post-trade businesses such as clearing and settlement are moving cross-border as trading of stocks, derivatives and bonds becomes more global
Categories: Financial services
Dutch lift lid on a high-frequency universe
In Amsterdam, home to the oldest HFT community in Europe, groups say high-frequency trading has helped investors by narrowing bid-ask spreads, adding liquidity and lowering transaction costs
Categories: Financial services
Dutch lift lid on a high-frequency universe
In Amsterdam, home to the oldest HFT community in Europe, groups say high-frequency trading has helped investors by narrowing bid-ask spreads, adding liquidity and lowering transaction costs
Categories: Financial services
Plus set to relaunch as derivatives exchange
A plan to transform the small-cap listings and reporting platform into a stock and derivatives exchange would pit it against the London Stock Exchange, Chi-X Europe and other trading venues
Categories: Financial services
Plus set to relaunch as derivatives exchange
A plan to transform the small-cap listings and reporting platform into a stock and derivatives exchange would pit it against the London Stock Exchange, Chi-X Europe and other trading venues
Categories: Financial services
SocGen hit by £1.57m FSA fine
Société Générale has been fined £1.57m for filing inaccurate reports to UK regulators on 80% of its trades over a two-year period
Categories: Financial services
SocGen hit by £1.57m FSA fine
Société Générale has been fined £1.57m for filing inaccurate reports to UK regulators on 80% of its trades over a two-year period
Categories: Financial services
US businesses alarmed at SEC plan
Corporate America senses a revolution in the offing on Wednesday – and one it finds deeply alarming
Categories: Financial services
Activist pension funds to target boards
Large activist pension funds are to launch a campaign to shake up underperforming US companies, using new rules due to be agreed on Wednesday that allow shareholders to directly nominate board directors
Categories: Financial services
Jupiter in the black after client inflows rise
The asset manager rode out volatile market conditions to attract £814m of net inflows, in contrast to rivals Gartmore and Henderson, which suffered outflows in the first half
Categories: Financial services
Spanish plan for rival to BME
A group of Spaniards from the finance sector announces plans to launch the country's first alternative trading platform for securities, to compete against the near-monopoly of Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME)
Categories: Financial services
New Spanish MTF set for 2011 launch
Plataforma Alternativa de Valores Españoles is the first sign of a domestic effort to challenge the near-monopoly of Bolsas y Mercados Españoles
Categories: Financial services
Quick View: A Chi-X-BATS combo?
Regardless of whether BATS is the mystery suitor for Chi-X, a deal between the two MTFs makes sense, argues Jeremy Grant
Categories: Financial services
The Bottom Line:If Mr Cable has his way...
"If Mr Cable had his way, all the big banks would be broken up and bonuses would be virtually eliminated - a sure-fire way in my view of guaranteeing an end to the UK’s ability to compete as an international financial centre. Let’s not forget that this is a man who is on record as saying that everyone who works in a bank has an ‘aristocratic lifestyle’ clearly demonstrating his lack of understanding of the sector." A tough line on bankers’ bonuses could make a brain drain of financial talent a distinct possibility, warns Paul Marsden. Read more