January 2017
News GIC completes €2.4 billion acquisition of P3 - one of the largest property deals in 2016
GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, has completed the purchase of P3, one of the a leading pan-European owners, developers and managers of logistics properties, from TPG Real Estate and Ivanhoé Cambridge...
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January 2017
News S&P Global Announces Agreement to Sell QuantHouse
S&P Global announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Quant House SAS (QuantHouse) to a company owned by Pierre Feligioni, one of QuantHouse’s original founders. The terms of the transaction were not (...)
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January 2017
News Euronext makes irrevocable cash offer to acquire LCH.Clearnet SA
Euronext, the leading 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 leading, multi-asset, Eurozone-based Central Counterparty (CCP) serving (...)
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January 2017
News Axioma Completes the Acquisition of ConceptONE’s Risk-Reporting Unit
Axioma reported the completion of its previously announced acquisition of the risk-reporting unit of ConceptONE, a global provider of back-office investment services. The transaction follows Axioma’s acquisition of ConceptONE’s regulatory-reporting unit in March. Terms were (...)
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January 2017
News AFT will maintain its flexible and innovative issuance strategy in 2017 with the launch of a green OAT
In a 2017 market environment where the ECB sustains quantitative easing throughout the year, Agence France Trésor will continue to adapt its issuance policy to market developments. AFT will continue its policy of adjusting issuance to investor demand during the year to (...)
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December 2016
News Euronext closes acquisition of a 20% stake in EuroCCP
Euronext today announced it has completed the acquisition of a 20% equity stake in EuroCCP, for an amount of €13.4m, after having received regulatory approvals. This follows the announcement of August 17th on the signing of a definitive agreement with the existing (...)
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December 2016
News Unigestion selected by Kirstein A/S to subadvise new fund with reduced CO2 emissions
Unigestion, the boutique asset manager with scale, was recently selected as subadvisor of K Invest Low Carbon Global Equity fund, co-developing the low carbon approach with Kirstein A/S, a leading financial consultant in Denmark. The fund aims to achieve above average (...)
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December 2016
News European ETF Market flows increased in November 2016.
Net New Assets (NNA) during this month amounted to EUR4.3bn, above the year to date average of EUR3.7bn. Total Assets under Management are up 10% vs. the end of 2015, reaching EUR497bn, and including a limited market impact (...)
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December 2016
News Amundi reinforces its European leadership position with the acquisition of Pioneer Investments from UniCredit
Amundi announces that it has signed a binding agreement with UniCredit in order to acquire Pioneer Investments for an all-cash consideration of €3,545 million. As part of the transaction, Amundi will form a long term strategic partnership with UniCredit for the distribution (...)
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December 2016
News AnaCap signs agreement to acquire Barclays’ French retail banking operations
AnaCap Financial Partners (“AnaCap”), the specialist European financial services private equity firm, has today announced that it has signed an agreement with Barclays plc to acquire its French Retail Banking operations including its branch network, life insurance (...)
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December 2016
News Cost-cutting European Banks Fail to See Efficiency Gains
In spite of the sustained effort European banks are making to reduce costs, their key measure of efficiency has continued to worsen since the global financial crisis, S&P Global Market Intelligence data shows.
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December 2016
News Euro surpasses RMB in traditional trade finance
Since the launch of the first SWIFT RMB Tracker in November 2011, the RMB has shown stellar growth for payments, whilst RMB usage by value in traditional trade finance – letters of credit and collections – has been decreasing since 2014. The Chinese currency is now the (...)
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December 2016
News Performance Sees Hedge Fund Assets Grow Despite Investor Redemptions
Preqin’s latest on asset flows in the hedge fund industry finds that across the first three quarters of 2016 assets held by hedge fund managers increased by 2.9%, taking total industry AUM to $3.24tn. Across most strategies, strong returns have been the central driver of (...)
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December 2016
News African Development Bank (AfDB) launched a new SEK Green Bond transaction
On Thursday, 24th November 2016, the African Development Bank (AfDB) launched a new SEK Green Bond transaction. The transaction is AfDB’s first Green Bond issuance since the USD 500 million 3-year Green Bond issued in December 2015 and marks AfDB’s third appearance in the SEK (...)
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December 2016
News RBS fails BoE stress test, adopts new capital plan
Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc emerged as the weakest among seven U.K. lenders examined in the Bank of England’s 2016 stress test, missing two key capital target levels under the adverse stress scenario.
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