Decline in UK law firm merger activity
July 6th, 2015
UK law firms are now merging for growth instead of financial necessity, according to research evidencing a decline in the number of mergers last year. Law firm merger activity in the UK declined by 11 per cent last year. ...
Nasdaq, Deutsche Börse and 7 other Exchanges around the world report trading statistics for June 2015
July 3rd, 2015
Nasdaq, Deutsche Börse, SIX, Eurex and another 7 exchanges have issued press releases to inform for the Trading statistics and Volumes for the Month June 2015. Nasdaq: Nasdaq publishes monthly trade statistics for the Nordic1 and Baltic2 markets. Below ...
Another Week, Another Chinese Gold Mine
June 26th, 2015
Though the true amounts are debatable, it’s generally conceded that China is importing a lot of gold. What’s not included in this calculation — but should be — are the deposits its mining companies are acquiring overseas. This gold-in-the-ground ...
Leading UK corporate financier joins Deloitte
June 26th, 2015
Paul Staples, formerly head of UK corporate finance and a senior managing director in the European Investment banking division of BNP Paribas has joined the Corporate Finance Advisory business of Deloitte as a partner. He completed his accountancy training ...
Regulatory Fine
June 26th, 2015
Global Regulators Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) Fines Imposed for Year 2015 and 2016
An alternative Legal Services Business is launched by Herbert Smith Freehills
June 22nd, 2015
Herbert Smith Freehills has launched a pioneering new global alternative legal services business, which harnesses the firm’s key legal and client technology expertise around the world to offer cost efficient legal products and technology services for clients. The new ...
Playtech Equity Raise: Placing of up to 29,050,000 Ordinary Shares
June 18th, 2015
LSE has issued a press release regarding Playtech £0.25 Billion Equity Raise The Placing Shares represent approximately 9.9 per cent. of the Company’s issued share capital immediately prior to the Placing and the number of Ordinary Shares in issue ...
What Lessons from Part-Timers about the US Labor Market?
June 15th, 2015
The US unemployment rate has been in the range of 5.4-5.5% since February, which is clearly a vast improvement from its peak of 10% in October 2009. But of course, no single number will capture the health of the ...
Adgorithms Announces Completion of Initial Public Offering on London Stock Exchange
June 11th, 2015
Formerly bootstrapped company raises capital for first time to expand technology, offices in London and New York Adgorithms Inc., (LSE: ADGO), a provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for programmatic advertising, today announced the successful admission of its 61,698,853 ...
CRYEX to establish crypto currency exchange and clearinghouse using turnkey solutions from Cinnober
May 19th, 2015
A new start-up in digital currency, CRYEX, has made its entrance on the financial stage. The company announced recently that it has filed an application with the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen) to become one of the world’s first regulated ...