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...But Direct Line needs to offer some zing to its shareholders if it is to shake off the attentions of Belgium’s Ageas....
...FourWorld has also pursued legal action in Belgium’s markets court and a US district court....
...Surrounded by corn and wheat fields, the building overlooks a vast wind farm at the border with Belgium....
...March US, Federal Reserve releases its Beige Book UK Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for March UK, house price index update for March Results: Tesla Q1, IBM Q1, Morgan Stanley Q1, Equifax Q1, Heineken NV...
...When the merger was floated in April it was opposed by Alexander Saverys, scion of the Belgium shipping family that founded Euronav in 1995 and now holds a near-20 per cent stake....
...Alexander Saverys, an heir to one of Belgium’s oldest shipping dynasties, has hit out at Norwegian tycoon John Fredriksen’s ambition to create the world’s largest oil tanker group and vowed to build opposition...
...Fredriksen holds about 40 per cent of Frontline through his Hemen Holding vehicle and last year built a stake of almost 10 per cent in Belgium-based Euronav....
...Chief executives from Belgium’s Euronav, Bermuda-based DHT Holdings and Frontline said about 70 supertankers out of a global fleet of 850 such vessels are facilitating the trade of roughly 400mn barrels...
...The company, which has curtailed production across three sites in France, Belgium and the Netherlands because of surging energy costs, said it expected the higher prices to continue....
...René van Vlerken, head of listings at Euronext Amsterdam, said his focus is on attracting listings and liquidity to the whole Euronext network, which spans countries including France, Portugal and Belgium...
...The closing auction at the exchange group, which operates in France, the Netherlands, Belgium and elsewhere, failed to take place, depriving investors and exchange traded funds of a crucial reference point...
...The French markets regulator last week ordered a month-long ban on bets against locally-listed stocks, joining Italy, Spain and Belgium — and later Austria and Greece — in a crackdown....
...CIAM is a top 10 shareholder with a 1.2 per cent stake in Telenet, one of Belgium’s three large telecoms companies....
...No surprise, then, that share prices of oil tanker companies such as Belgium’s Euronav, Bermuda-based Frontline and DHT of the US have all fallen less than most landlubber businesses....
...The filings, which were made in connection with a legal assistance request from the Belgium government to the US, showed that Belgian investigators are probing the company for alleged “public contract fraud...
...Mr Hamers is credited with moving faster than rivals to digitise retail banking, and radically cutting its branch network in Belgium and the Netherlands while expanding with tech-driven offerings in new...
...in Canada and for ABN Amro 1991 Joins ING in structured finance, then moves through various roles, including head of media finance and CEO of ING Bank Netherlands 2011 Becomes chief executive of ING Belgium...
...Its domestic division, with operations in France, Italy, Belgium and Luxembourg, reported flat revenues in the period....
...Tell that to Nyrstar, a Belgium-based producer of zinc and lead. The heavily indebted company has struggled to pay creditors recently. The top investor with 24 per cent is commodity trader Trafigura....
...● In brief: ASMI cut to “hold” at Kepler Cheuvreux; Alpha Financial Markets rated new “outperform” at RBC; Baloise cut to “neutral” at JPMorgan; Daily Mail rated new “buy” at Investec; DWS raised to “neutral...
...But Euronext told customers over the next 24 months it would look to migrate Irish market business from its London home to a Belgium-based unit of Euroclear, one of the world’s largest settlement houses....
...The Belgium-based group, which is struggling to service a large debt pile, said Trafigura had agreed to put in place a $650m credit line that it can use to fund its day-to-day operations but not repay debt...
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