The TRADE

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The London Stock Exchange (LSEG) saw overall growth across its key businesses in 2023, with considerable improvement across data and analytics, capital markets, and in particular, post-trade. year-on-year increase, while capital markets saw a 6.1% In capital markets, the 6.1%

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The TRADE

MAY 29, 2024

Why are these cloud providers – hugely profitable in their own right – injecting money into exchanges and seemingly competing for market share across the capital markets landscape in order to assist the trading ecosystem with their shift? But we must ask ourselves – why?

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The business has been rebranded as Marex Prime Services and Market Outsourced Trading, with both becoming part of the Marex Capital Markets business – formed last year following the acquisition of ED&F Man Capital Markets. TD Bank Group then agreed to acquire Cowen in August 2022.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has invited market participants to provide feedback on the shortening of the settlement cycle in the European Union. The call to evidence asks for stakeholders’ views as well as quantitative evidence “to form a better understanding of the issue and help ESMA produce an assessment of the costs (..)

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The TRADE

MARCH 15, 2024

While we haven’t seen meaningful, industry-wide collaboration on digital assets yet, we do seem to be very much aligned on one thing: the enormous promise that tokenisation offers. Our solution, Capital Markets Platform, helps clients harmonise and integrate these technologies.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) has selected the Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) Global Network to offer direct market access to global institutional investors. ICE Global Network will be leveraged by ADX to expand its global investor base by facilitating real-time access to market data and order entry.

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How2Exit

JULY 13, 2023

They also mention their collaboration on a chocolate roll-up project, which involved researching different industries and using tools and templates to identify the chocolate industry as the most suitable for their parameters. The episode concludes with a discussion on the importance of collaboration and sharing ideas as entrepreneurs.

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The TRADE

MAY 1, 2024

Other areas include: securities finance, liquidity management, foreign exchange and other capital market activities where outside providers can potentially add efficiency to a manager’s operating model.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

2022 drivers and headwinds Choppy access to capital markets and financing to fund ongoing operations Many life sciences companies faced challenges raising money in the capital markets in 2022. Let’s dig in.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 3, 2024

They will need to take the Capital Markets Union more seriously and remove the frictional cost of trading between countries. In light of geopolitical realities, sluggish economic growth, and constraint public finances, it will be particularly critical for the EU to ensure a new vision in regard to the Capital Markets Union.

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Tyton Partners

APRIL 10, 2024

Achieve Partners is a social impact focused fund investing in cutting-edge technologies and novel business models that bolster skill development and secure the future of work. “Tyton was thrilled to support Queen’s University and the Elentra team on this exciting transaction.

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Accenture Capital Markets

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Combining cloud with artificial intelligence (AI) cannot just offer an improved, modern technology infrastructure—but also one that could deliver 360-degree business value through becoming data- driven, achieving faster product and solution innovation, higher scalability and better security. The post Is your technology future-ready?

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Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This post highlights 10 key trends that shaped global M&A market activity in 2022 – and will likely continue to impact deals into 2023. Show me the cash With the slowdown in capital markets, increased interest rates and the end of “easy money” from traditional lenders, the need for access to cash and financing drove M&A deals in 2022.

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Peak Frameworks

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Investment Banking Activities Investment banks have a dual role; they provide advisory services to corporations and governments and raise capital by issuing and selling securities in the capital markets. These include: Physical Branch Costs: Rent, utilities, maintenance, and security for each branch.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2020

If, however, capital markets and the economy weaken in 2020, M&A transactions may be the only viable option for life sciences companies to access capital, in which case we would expect to see more M&A transactions by number, but they would likely be paired with lower purchase prices and/or more highly structured.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Following  the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) vote to shorten the settlement cycle to one business day  from 28 May next year, European regulators launched a call for evidence on 5 October to assess the impact of a shorter settlement cycle on the continent; final report scheduled for Q4 2024.

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Accenture Capital Markets

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“The global capital markets system is at an inflection point. More than ever, retail investors need a responsible capital markets ecosystem. The Future of Capital Markets: Democratization of Retail Investing An insight report from the World Economic Forum published August 2022.

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