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February 11, 2024

China’s capital markets activity falls to multi-decade lows

...The capital markets data reflect a climate where China’s financial system has become increasingly isolated, despite the ending of the pandemic....

April 14, 2024

FT Live

Infrastructure Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean

Identifying opportunities for investors and asset managers

InterviewUS financial regulation

US consumer finance watchdog raises alarm over credit card megadeals

...He declined to comment “specifically” on Capital One and Discover, but made clear his concerns about the combination of two “large issuers . . . that compete in a number” of credit card sub-markets, calling...

April 24, 2024

Correction

Correction: Italian capital markets reforms

...Italian parliamentary approval of capital markets reforms did not include an amendment giving long-term investors with a stake of 9 per cent or more in a company an advantage over other shareholders, as...

February 9, 2024

Europe Express

How EU leaders fudged a compromise on integration of capital markets Premium

...Sweden did not want to risk its well-developed and functioning capital market by handing oversight to Brussels....

April 19, 2024

UBS Group AG

UBS ‘seriously concerned’ by Swiss capital proposals, says chair Colm Kelleher

...He added: “While the US and Asia attract capital through effective regulation, the lack of deep capital markets in Europe poses challenges for both its economy and banks.”...

April 24, 2024

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Capital markets

How Sweden’s stock market became the envy of Europe

...“Sweden now has the deepest capital markets in Europe,” said William Wright, co-founder of markets think-tank New Financial....

April 18, 2024

Italian politics

Italy’s parliament approves controversial company board reforms

...Some analysts say the measures affecting corporate governance will overshadow the benefits of the broader capital markets reform....

February 6, 2024

News updates from April 15: US retail sales rise more than expected; Yen falls below ¥154 per dollar

China’s capital markets activity falls to multi-decade lows

...Activity on China’s equity capital markets on the mainland and beyond has slumped to multi-decade lows, highlighting how the loss of momentum in the world’s second-largest economy has weighed on investor...

April 14, 2024

Mairead McGuinness

Vested interests must not block the EU’s capital markets union

...But we don’t offer companies enough options for finance from capital markets. That’s especially important for young, innovative companies....

March 19, 2024

News updates from April 18: Netflix profits surge; Jurors selected for Trump’s ‘hush money’ trial

Ireland’s premier bemoans ‘lost opportunity’ by EU to unify capital markets

...Ireland’s Taoiseach has said the EU’s failure to unify its capital markets had resulted in significant loss of assets from the bloc....

April 18, 2024

Moral Money

The World Bank’s private capital push Premium

...Since NZAOA members are invested in virtually every public company on the planet, and a huge range of private assets to boot, their work has implications for all other investors in these markets....

April 19, 2024

LexAsset allocation

Larry Fink’s faith in the power of markets needs some tempering Premium

...Fink said the advances in the depth and sophistication of US capital and securities markets over the past 40 years had diminished the influence of the banking sector in capital allocation....

April 2, 2024

Venture capital investment

Social Capital sacks two partners over ‘situation’ involving AI investment

...public markets and M&A since 2020....

March 12, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

Time to stop dithering over the EU’s capital markets union

...Politicians are, finally, grasping the link between Europe’s productivity challenges and its fragmented capital markets....

March 13, 2024

FT Live

Crypto and Digital Assets Summit

Connecting leaders in crypto with mainstream finance

Venture capital investment

Sacked Social Capital partners push back on dismissal over AI investment

...Palihapitiya raised about 10 Spacs between 2020 and 2022 through Social Capital, which acquired companies, including Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, real estate group Opendoor and healthcare company Clover...

March 14, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

The unfulfilled potential of Europe’s stock markets

...Around 60 per cent of European company sales are outside Europe, whereas many US firms are more focused on domestic markets....

February 27, 2024

Cryptofinance

Miners double down on bitcoin halving

...Data mining: Crypto venture capital opening the year strong This year the crypto market has welcomed the approval of spot bitcoin exchange traded funds and a fresh all-time high for bitcoin....

April 19, 2024

Liontrust

Liontrust hit with £4bn in outflows from UK funds

...Liontrust’s latest figures are another sign that UK equity markets are struggling as investors continue to shift capital to international stocks in search of higher returns....

April 17, 2024

Markets InsightHenny Sender

India’s painful venture capital crunch

...While many markets had seen a drop in venture capital funding last year, the Indian market for such finance has been hit particularly hard....

March 19, 2024

Puig SA

Spanish beauty group Puig aims for €14bn IPO

...beauty market during the next phase of the company’s development.”...

April 18, 2024

Markets InsightMakhtar Diop

Better risk data should boost confidence in emerging markets

..., where more capital is needed....

April 25, 2024

Europe Express

Why Slovakia’s presidential election is a vote on Robert Fico’s power Premium

...Capital Markets Disunion Europeans’ money is sleeping in bank deposits, leaving EU companies short of access to capital, and often forcing them to look across the Atlantic when seeking funds to scale up...

April 5, 2024

xAI

Sequoia commits to backing Musk’s xAI start-up

...Sequoia Capital, Silicon Valley’s best-known venture capital firm, has committed to investing in Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI, boosting the Tesla chief’s efforts to raise billions and...

April 26, 2024

LexUS banks

Watered-down Basel III could boost US banks Premium

...The market rally that has taken shares in some of Wall Street’s biggest banks to all-time highs is about to receive an additional boost from an unlikely source: a set of rules known as the “Basel III Endgame...

April 10, 2024

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