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Société Générale on Tuesday announced that it had agreed to buy Commerzbank’s equity markets and commodities business (EMC), including market-making flow and products trading as well as exchange-traded fund (ETF) subsidiary ComStage.

The shares of Amigo are trading up almost 6.5% from its IPO price on its second day of trading, with investors keen to get exposure to the guarantor lender.

Metals tycoon Anil Agarwal has made a possible offer to take full ownership of Vedanta Resources, the London-listed mining company, for 825p a share, as UK M&A continues to drive a sharp increase in lending in the currency.

Barclays is working hard to expand its equity capital markets business in Northern Europe, in a bid to capitalise on what it expects to be a busy few years for the region.

ASA International Group, the microfinance firm which lends to female entrepreneurs and small business owners in developing economies, has set a price range for its London IPO.

There was a smattering of sterling deals from public sector borrowers this week, as the biggest issuer in the currency — the UK Debt Management Office — provided details for its next syndication.

Friday marks one year since the launch of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure’s final guidelines — a blueprint for companies to report to investors how they are facing up to climate change.

Veteran Deutsche Börse executive Jeffrey Tessler has been appointed chairman of derivatives exchange Eurex Frankfurt and clearing division Eurex Clearing.

British oil and gas company BP returned to the European corporate bond markets on Thursday for the first time in a year. Two euro tranches came 12 months after the company’s last euro offering, and a sterling tranche was its first in its domestic currency since August 2016.

British oil and gas company BP returned to the European corporate bond markets on Thursday for the first time in a year. Two euro tranches came twelve months after the company’s last euro offering, and a sterling tranche was its first in its domestic currency since August 2016.

Barclays has hired from Bank of America Merrill Lynch and also promoted two others to lead the digitisation of its markets business.

Paul Feeney, Quilter's CEO, has attributed the success of the company’s IPO to listening to investors on price, which ensured the asset manager's stock got off to a flying start when it began trading.