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London Stock Exchange Sees Europe’s Largest Ever eCommerce Listing

Date 16/09/2020

UK tech company THG opened London’s markets for trading today, celebrating their listing on London Stock Exchange’s Main Market. The global ecommerce technology platform raised £1.88 billion pre greenshoe, the market capitalisation at IPO was £5.4 billion.

Delta Capita Appoints Sarah Carver As Head Of Digital

Date 16/09/2020

Delta Capita, a global provider of managed services, fintech solutions and consulting, announced that it has appointed Sarah Carver as its new Head of Digital to focus on driving the client digital proposition.

Bedford Row Capital Plc Launches First Sukuk For UK Property Market - $50 Million, 3 Year Sukuk Will Give Investors Unique Shari’a-Compliant Access To The UK Property Market

Date 16/09/2020

Bedford Row Capital Plc (BRC), a global non-bank structuring specialist today announces the issuance of a $50 million, three year sukuk to finance the expansion of P1 Capital Ltd, (“P1”) a UK company with a proven track record and operating profits.  P1 is a boutique asset-management group focusing on asset backed investments in the UK property sector. All investments are secured on UK property by legal charges, debentures and corporate / personal warranties.  P1 carries out rigorous due diligence on all projects to protect investments and actively monitors performance throughout the lifecycle of projects.

GoldenSource Launches Quant Workbench Solution As Financial Return Pressures Mount For Financial Institutions

Date 16/09/2020

GoldenSource has launched a new Quant Workbench tool that enables financial institutions to better leverage their data by running superior analytics and quantitative research directly on best available reference and pricing data.

LCH Clears First Israeli Shekel-Denominated Swaps

Date 16/09/2020

• LCH is the first clearing house to offer clearing of Israeli Shekel-denominated interest rate swaps
• Launched in response to customer demand
• SwapClear offers clearing for interest rate derivatives across 27 global currencies

BTON Financial Appoints Former Tradeweb Heavyweight Andrew Bernard As NED - Promotes Regulatory Expert Caroline Holmes To COO

Date 16/09/2020

BTON Financial has today announced the appointment of fixed income and electronic trading expert, Andrew Bernard, as Non-Executive Director. Andrew joins BTON’s advisory board from Tradeweb, where he held a variety of senior positions over the past 17 years, including MD, Head of of Asia and as an MD in the London office. Prior to Tradeweb he served as Head of European Government Bond Sales and as Principal of the Global Leveraged Group for Bank of America, and Director of UK sales at Société Générale. Andrew will play a key role in shaping the direction of the company and delivering BTON Financial’s plans to bring its technology and data-driven dealing desk to the wider asset management community.

Mogadishu-Based Amana Bank Signs Comprehensive Software Deal With Path Solutions - The New Project Will Be Deployed On Oracle Cloud Infrastructure For High-Performance Computing Power To Run The Bank’s IT Workloads While Providing Real-Time Elasticity

Date 16/09/2020

Amana Bank, a leading Islamic bank in Somalia today announced that it has selected iMAL, the AAOIFI-certified core banking platform from Path Solutions to replace its legacy IT system and deploy a single, cloud-based digital banking platform to underpin its banking operations.

Hong Kong Securities And Futures Commission Bans Fabian Shin Yick For 20 Months Over IPO Sponsor Failures

Date 16/09/2020

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has prohibited Mr Fabian Shin Yick, a former responsible officer (RO) and chief executive officer of Yi Shun Da Capital Limited (YSD Capital), from re-entering the industry for 20 months from 15 September 2020 to 14 May 2022 for breaching the SFC’s Code of Conduct and Sponsor Guidelines.

Hong Kong Securities And Futures Commission Commences Disciplinary Proceedings Against Ngai Lai Ha For Alleged Breach Of Takeovers Code

Date 16/09/2020

The Securities and Futures Commission’s (SFC) Takeovers Executive  has today commenced disciplinary proceedings before the Takeovers and Mergers Panel (Takeovers Panel) against Ms Ngai Lai Ha (Ngai), the chairperson of International Housewares Retail Company Limited (the Company) over a breach of the Code on Takeovers and Mergers (Takeovers Code).

Tokyo Stock Exchange To launch TSE Timely Disclosure Corpus Service

Date 16/09/2020

With the aim of utilizing machine translation, etc. to meet the growing need for disclosure in English, from September 16, 2020, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) will launch its "TSE Timely Disclosure Corpus Data Service".