UK-based chocolate manufacturer Hotel Chocolat Group is planning a floatation to raise funds for its expansion plan. The founders of the business Angus Thirlwell and Peter Harris are planning to raise £50m through placement in ...
Tags: Hotel Chocolat, Business expansion
China's securities regulator announced on Friday that it has registered the first batch of Mainland-Hong Kong Mutual Recognition of Funds (MRF). China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has registered three Hong Kong funds under the ...
Tags: Funds Registered, Mainland-HK
The long-term consequences of China's coming stockmarket correction are the ones to fear IF YOU were a Chinese worker you could have spent the past year toiling to earn a living. Or you could have bought some shares and sat on the sofa ...
Tags: Share Prices, Economy, Stockmarket
DFS is to target a valuation of between £600m and £1b in a long-awaited London stock market listing on 4th February that will include a substantial offering to retail investors, according to Sky News. The company is owned by ...
Tags: stock market, retail investors, Furniture
With falling home prices and slowing growth, Beijing already has plenty on its plate. Such challenges are now fueling concerns about how the current Russian currency turmoil will impact the world’s second largest economy, and ...
Tags: Currency Depreciation, home prices, rubble
The Digital Marvels, Inc. announced omniTouche, the first cloud-based software platform that enables Luxury, Fashion and Retail brands to offer consumers a seamless and personalized brand experience – across all channels – ...
Tags: Digital Marvels, Textile
Retail investors will now be able to buy $10,000 parcels of Australian government bonds on the Australian Securities Exchange, five years after the process began to make it possible. ASX chief executive Elmer Funke Kupper launched the ...
Tags: ASX Bond Market, Business
Two Chinese firms will debut on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong this month. They are China Galaxy Securities Co., Ltd. and Sinopec Engineering (Group) Co., Ltd. The former formally triggered the share sale on May 6 and the latter is ...
Tags: Launch IPO, Sinopec Engineering
Australian government bonds will be traded on the Australian Securities Exchange from May 21. The new arrangement will allow investments in Treasury Bonds and Treasury Indexed Bonds in the form of CHESS Depository Interests (CDIs). ...
Tags: ASX Trade, Government Bonds
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission's plan to discourage high-frequency traders from using "dark pools" has been criticised by industry superannuation funds. Industry Super Network head of regulatory policy Zak May told a ...
Central Markets, a UK-based stockbroker has introduced an insurance policy to secure retail customers' funds, if one of its platform providers become insolvent. Underwritten by Lloyd's of London, the policy forms part of the company's ...
Saudi PetroRabigh's polyethylene and polypropylene plants are still only partially running even though they were started up last month following maintenance work, sources close to operations said. The plants were closed so that necessary ...
Rather than trying to hinder the high-frequency traders by taxing the buy and sell orders they place and withdraw in milliseconds every day, the Industry Super Network proposes a new trading model with a series of auctions through the day ...
Tags: high-frequency trades, Australia, investment
"We're probably seeing three times the volume of applications compared with this time last year," said Adrian Hanley, head of equity lending at NAB. "We have had a significant lift in new client activity in the fourth quarter of 2012." ...
Tags: Margin Lending, Stocks, Australia
The sharemarket broke a 10-day winning streak yesterday after the US Federal Reserve said the country's economy had paused recently. However, the Australian bond market found support after a wave of selling. "Being the last day of the ...
Tags: stocks, US economy, sharemarket