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Julia Hoggett is moving from the UK's Financial Conduct Authority to become chief executive of London Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of the wider London Stock Exchange Group forming part of its capital markets business. It operates debt and equity securities. Her predecessor at the stock exchange, Nikhil Rathi, moved the other way to become head of the FCA earlier this year. -
The European Leveraged Finance Association, a trade body of investors, has slammed terms in the $1bn buyout bond for Ancestry.com which cap investor voting rights, hoping to stop the new feature in its tracks and prevent sponsors including it in European transactions.
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The European Commission is considering a way to proceed with its €750bn coronavirus recovery fund that will exclude Hungary and Poland. The two countries have stood firm in their opposition over the idea that receipt of EU funds will depend on states adhering to the rule of law.
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Veteran equity analyst and forensic accountant Steve Clapham believes it is stories that drive investment decisions and seldom cold analysis of financial accounts. But he believes it is hard to find a company which isn’t engaged in some level of financial wrongdoing and argues that auditors are blind to it, wilfully or otherwise.
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Guatemala has settled a long-running legal dispute with Florida-based Teco Energy, allowing it to pay bondholders and avoid defaulting on an international bond.
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Alibaba’s chief executive Daniel Zhang has praised a regulatory crackdown on China’s technology titans. That was an abrupt turn from co-founder Jack Ma’s loose-lips policy to discussing China. Investors will be relieved.
