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London Stock Exchange Group: 1000 Companies To Inspire Britain Report Highlights Significant Growth Potential Of UK SMEs

Date 10/05/2017

• London Stock Exchange Group’s annual report identifies fastest-growing and most dynamic SMEs across the UK
• Data shows companies growing at 70% per year, up from 50% last year
• Ambitious companies present across all UK regions, with 35% of companies from the Northern Powerhouse and Midlands Engine regions
• Scottish companies are fastest growing with 91% annual average revenue growth
• Most companies in Engineering and Construction sector, with 134, followed by Financial Services with 82
• Report receives cross-party support and backing of UK’s major business bodies

Tokyo Commodity Exchange: Good Delivery Material Price Differential For May 2017 Rubber Contract

Date 10/05/2017

The price differential of the Good Delivery material for the May 2017 contract month in the Rubber market has be determined as follows,

Valitor Acquires IPS Ltd To Strengthen Its Presence In Payment Solutions Provision

Date 10/05/2017

Valitor, a global leader in Fintech banking services provision has announced the acquisition of International Payment Services, IPS ltd, a UK based leading secure payment solutions provider with immediate effect. The acquisition will see the consolidation of IPS's powerful technology into Valitor's own e-commerce solution, through its subsidiary AltaPay, one of Europe's most innovative online, mobile and point of sale payment companies.

Remarks Of CFTC Acting Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo Before International Swaps And Derivatives Association 32nd Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal - “Changing Swaps Trading Liquidity, Market Fragmentation And Regulatory Comity In Post-Reform Global Swaps Markets”

Date 10/05/2017

Introduction

Good morning. It is great to be here in Lisbon speaking before all of you at this great conference. It is an honor to speak alongside my esteemed international colleagues, Steven Maijoor, Chair of ESMA, and Svein Andresen, Secretary General of the FSB.

Ancoa Software Sold By Leonard Curtis Business Solutions Group To Cinnober Financial Technology AB

Date 10/05/2017

Alex Cadwallader and Andrew Duncan, Directors at Leonard Curtis Business Solutions Group, were appointed Joint Administrators to Ancoa Software Ltd on 5 May 2017. The business and certain assets were sold immediately after to Swedish technology group Cinnober Financial Technology, saving jobs and preserving certain ongoing customer contracts.

Cinnober Acquires Market Surveillance Specialist Ancoa Software

Date 10/05/2017

Cinnober Financial Technology announces today the acquisition of the business and assets of Ancoa Software, the UK-based market surveillance specialist company.

Qatar Stock Exchange Completes Successful New York Investor Forum

Date 10/05/2017

Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE), in collaboration with QNB Financial Services and HSBC, today completed a two day roadshow that aimed to support the further development and practice of QSE’s listed companies’ investor relations. 

Tehran Stock Exchange Holds International Financing Event For Local Companies

Date 10/05/2017

An international financing conference was held on Monday 8 May 2017 in Tehran.

Tunisia Sets Up Task Force With Nasdaq Dubai To Pave Way For Issuing First Sukuk

Date 10/05/2017

• Initiative will promote Sharia’a-compliant capital-raising by state and private entities to fund Tunisia’s economic growth
• Workshop conducted to update Tunisian delegates on developments in the Sukuk market 

Shanghai Stock Exchange - Chinese Academy Of Sciences Training Course For Linking Sci-tech Enterprises And Capital Market Rounded Off In Shanghai

Date 10/05/2017

On April 27, 2017, the SSE-CAS Workshop for linking Sci-tech Enterprises and the Capital Market, co-sponsored by the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) and Chinese Academy of Sciences Holdings Co., Ltd. (CAS Holdings), was held at the SSE trading floor. Attending the activity and delivering speeches were Wu Qing, SSE Chairman, Zhang Dongke, SSE Vice Chairman, and Suo Jishuan, General Manager of CAS Holdings. Other attendants included nearly 100 senior managers from 54 hi-tech enterprises with shares held by the CAS or research institutions affiliated to it.