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IWD2019: Women Businesses Supported By Women Investors Are 21% More Likely To Succeed - UK Government Awards £50,000 To 9 Women Entrepreneurs On International Women’s Day - But Who Will Support Their Business After Today?

Date 08/03/2019

Today, on International Women’s Day, the Government and Innovate UK have announced the recipients of the Women in Innovation award. Each women entrepreneur has been awarded £50,000 to develop and grow their business. After today, the next stage of their business growth will require further investment and guidance. So who will be there to help them succeed? Research from the UK Business Angels Association (UKBAA) has found that women businesses who have been supported by women investors are 21% more likely to succeed. However, only 14% of investors are women, so on International Women’s Day 2019, the UK Business Angels Association encourages more women who have the capabilities to become investors to join their local and regional investment communities.

Malawi Stock Exchange Monthly Market Performance Report - February 2019

Date 08/03/2019

Click here to download Malawi Stock Exchange's  monthly market performance report.

Equity Market Structure 2019: Looking Back & Moving Forward - SEC Chairman Clayton, Brett Redfearn, Director, Division Of Trading And Markets

Date 08/03/2019

Chairman Clayton:

Thank you, Dean Rapaccioli, for your kind introduction and for the invitation to Director Redfearn and me to speak about equity market structure.

Toronto Stock Exchange Welcomes Lightspeed POS Inc. - Montréal-Based SMB Retail And Restaurant Software Provider To Celebrate Upcoming Tsx Ipo With Market Open Ceremony Today

Date 08/03/2019

Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) announced today that Lightspeed POS Inc. (Lightspeed), a Montréal-based point of sale software firm, will begin trading this morning under the symbol TSX:LSPD.

Bank Of England Announces Supervisory Action Over Visa Europe’s June 2018 Partial Outage Incident

Date 08/03/2019

On 1 June 2018 there was a partial service disruption of Visa Europe’s card authorisations system.

Malawi Stock Exchange Weekly Summary Report - 8 March 2019

Date 08/03/2019

Click here to download Malawi Stock Exchange's weekly summary report.

Tradeweb Files For IPO - Plans To List On Nasdaq

Date 08/03/2019

This is the initial public offering of Tradeweb Markets Inc. We are selling   shares of our Class A common stock.

KDPW Reduces Settlement Fees

Date 08/03/2019

Fees for the settlement of transactions in organised trading will be reduced by 25 percent. The KDPW Supervisory Board has passed the relevant resolution at the request of the Management Boars. The reduced settlement fees will apply from 1 July to 31 December 2019.

ESMA Sheds Light On OTC Trade Reporting Under No-Deal - Anne Plested, Regulations Expert At Fidessa

Date 08/03/2019

ESMA has released a statement which amongst other things includes clarification for EU investment firms that they will have to publish their OTC trades via an EU APA if a UK counterparty is involved. Whilst in Europe this approach may serve to ensure post-trade transparency within the EU27, it is also true that the UK counterparty could be required to publish that trade to a UK APA. This sounds to me like a recipe for a return to the problem of OTC duplicate reporting, despite MiFID II’s decade in making efforts to improve on that situation.

European M&A Hits A Six-Year Low - Investment Banking Scorecard From Refinitiv

Date 08/03/2019

The Investment Banking Scorecard from Refinitiv gives you the ‘Fast Facts’ of the week in Investment Banking, as well as a closer look at trends in deal making, with league table movements and regional activity in M&A, capital markets and syndicated loans also included.  Please see attached for the matrix of year-to-date IB activity with breakdowns by asset class/region/sector, league tables and top deals. Please source any insights to Refinitiv.