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...“Over the past 10 years the top 100 asset managers have been coalescing around a smaller set of technology vendors,” said Alex Heasman of consultancy Alpha FMC, which helps investment managers purchase IT...
...Lisa Stroup, a biologist who has worked for another minerals company, FMC Lithium, has written pages of detailed notes to North Carolina state authorities in response to Piedmont Lithium’s permit application...
...He said Sigma was using dry processing technology to produce lithium concentrate, a partly refined version of the metal, meaning it did not need a dam to store waste material and water....
...The New York-listed company, formed from the merger of Technip and FMC Technologies in 2017, admitted conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act as part of a settlement with US and Brazilian...
...It also underline the risks of investing in companies promoting new types of processing technology....
...products,” FMC said in its filing....
...At another plant nearby, robots silently assemble sheets of battery materials to be made into lithium-iron phosphate batteries, the technology used by China’s electric buses, which are part of the world’...
...The company, which was spun out of its parent FMC and listed on the New York Stock Exchange last year, said it was looking at low cost high quality assets in Argentina and Australia....
...Olivia Vinden, principal at Alpha FMC, the wealth and asset management consultancy, said a big challenge for companies was getting regulatory sign-off to use blockchain....
...The corporate calendar for Wednesday includes WH Smiths, Steinhoff, Workspace Group, Alpha FMC and IG Group....
...The Solactive Global Lithium index not only has lithium makers such as US listed Albemarle and FMC Corp, it also contains carmakers Tesla and BYD....
...The company plans to move its network on to blockchain technology in 2019 in a move Olivia Vinden, principal at Alpha FMC, the asset and wealth management consultancy, said could be revolutionary....
...Schlumberger bought Cameron, Technip merged with FMC Technologies and Baker Hughes merged with the oil and gas business of General Electric....
...In contrast, “fund management company” licences allow the sale of mutual funds to locals, and “this latest regulatory opening [on FMC’s foreign ownership limits], together with other recent market developments...
...German healthcare group Fresenius Medical Care is making a push to become a leader in home dialysis treatment, by purchasing Boston-based medical technology and services company NxStage Medical for €1.7bn...
...Química y Minera de Chile (SQM) accounts for more than 20 per cent of the world’s lithium supply, making it one of five companies that dominate the global market alongside China’s Ganfeng, Tianqi Lithium, FMC...
...Euan Fraser, chief executive of Alpha, said demand from asset managers for access to better quality data and more efficient technology systems had driven the company’s growth....
...The Wood-Amec tie-up is just the latest deal in the industry in recent years — other examples include the combination of FMC Technologies and Technip of France and Baker Hughes’ merger with the oil and gas...
...Other deals in recent years have included the merger of Baker Hughes with the oil and gas business of General Electric, Schlumberger’s acquisition of Cameron International and the merger of FMC Technologies...
...Other deals have included the acquisition of Cameron by Schlumberger and the merger of Technip and FMC Technologies....
...Other deals have included the $14.3bn acquisition of Cameron by Schlumberger and the merger of Technip and FMC Technologies....
...Deals include the acquisition of Cameron by Schlumberger, the merger of Technip and FMC Technologies and the merger of General Electric’s oil and gas division with Baker Hughes, which is yet to complete....
...Other deals include the acquisition of Cameron by Schlumberger, the merger of Technip and FMC Technologies and the merger of General Electric’s oil and gas division with Baker Hughes, which is yet to complete...
...That is not to say Aladdin is suitable for everyone,” says Greg Faragher-Thomas, director at Alpha FMC, the consultancy. “Aladdin has pros and cons.”...
...Schlumberger, another major player, bought energy equipment manufacturer Cameron International, and FMC Technologies of the US and Technip of France also last year agreed a merger....
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