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Intercontinental Exchange is aiming to beat the London Metal Exchange in a race to offer a London gold futures contract, by rolling out a product in February to support central clearing. -
BNP Paribas has brought together its global listed derivatives businesses on a single platform hosted by UK software and services company Fidessa.
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Misys, the UK banking software company, has been buffeted by the turbulence that has beset the European IPO market over the last two weeks, as it launched the bookbuild for its £650m to £750m IPO on Monday with a lower free float than initially planned.
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Biffa, the UK waste management company, relaunched its IPO on Friday morning after the deal failed to attract enough demand at the original price range. The deal is covered at the new terms.
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Icap has bought Abide Financial, a global regulatory reporting specialist.
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Barclays, Lloyds Bank, Nomura and Royal Bank of Scotland will run the sale, scheduled for the week beginning October 24.
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A former managing director at Deutsche Bank has joined Royal Bank Scotland's corporate origination team.
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UK government bond yields fell on Thursday, despite the Scottish government starting the process of launching a second independence referendum.
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Political wrangling on both sides of the Atlantic this week produced contrasting fortunes for two currencies in futures markets, with the Mexican peso receiving a boost and the British pound slumping to some of its worst ever levels against the US dollar.
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Unilever’s attempt to raise prices on goods it sells to UK supermarkets would not have covered all of its costs from the recent depreciation of sterling, a Unilever executive has told GlobalCapital.
