Property investment platform LendInvest has launched first retail bond on the Order Book for Retail Bonds. LendInvest is also the first UK company on ELITE, LSEG’s business support and capital raising programme, to access the debt capital markets to support its growth. ELITE offers the UK’s most exciting and ambitious private companies a full programme…
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TORA, provider of advanced cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS), today announced that it has joined the London Stock Exchange Group’s UnaVista Partner Programme to help clients meet the transaction reporting requirements of MiFID II. When MiFID II comes into force in January 2018, buy-side firms will be required to submit transaction reports directly…
Read moreLondon Stock Exchange Group’s UnaVista today announced it has welcomed more than 20 firms to its Partner Programme in the first half of 2017. The Partner Programme was launched to bring together the world's leading financial services and regulatory technology firms to increase efficiency and reduce operational and regulatory risk for clients. The UnaVista Partner…
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London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has reached an agreement with Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) to acquire The Yield Book and Citi Fixed Income Indices, a fixed income analytics platform and index business comprising a family of fixed income indices (including the WGBI) (together the “Business”) for a total cash consideration of $685 million (£535 million),…
Read moreLondon Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Kenyan Ministry of Energy and Petroleum. This is the first agreement signed between LSEG and the Government of Kenya. The agreement, signed by Charles Keter, Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum, and Nikhil Rathi, CEO, London Stock Exchange plc outlines both…
Read moreLondon Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) today announced that its international business support and capital raising ecosystem, ELITE, is welcoming a further 17 UK companies, bringing the total number of UK businesses in the ELITE community to over 100. Umerah Akram, Head of ELITE UK, welcomed the new ELITE CEOs to open trading on London’s markets…
Read moreLondon Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) announced an additional market for the issuance of primary debt targeted at institutional and professional investors, the International Securities Market (ISM). The exchange-regulated multilateral trading facility (MTF) market will operate alongside London Stock Exchange plc’s (LSE plc) other markets. LSE plc will publish a market consultation at the end of…
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London Stock Exchange Group Plc (LSEG) said its $13 billion tie-up with Deutsche Boerse AG is unlikely to proceed after a new regulatory hurdle signaled a potential end to the companies’ efforts to create a champion European exchange, according to Bloomberg. European Union officials had requested that LSE divest MTS, an electronic trading platform for…
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London Stock Exchange (LSE) just welcomed the listing of Israel’s largest ever Euro denominated bond offering. The €2.25 billion issue in 10 and 20 year government bonds marks the first time in three years Israel has issued Euro denominated debt. The offer secured exceptional investor demand and was more than four times oversubscribed, with the combined…
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Euronext, the pan-European exchange in the Eurozone, has signed a binding offer and been granted exclusivity to acquire 100% of the share capital and voting rights of Clearnet. Clearnet is a multi-asset, Eurozone-based Central Counterparty (CCP) serving Euronext’s markets, pan-European electronic trading platforms and OTC markets, with gross income of €137m and profit after tax…
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