Equities

Labour presses ahead with national wealth fund: ‘Government is open for business’

State vehicle could ‘catalyse private sector investment in new and growing industries’

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T+1 technical group chair Andrew Douglas calls for ‘more haste, less speed’

The group will give a firm date for the UK’s move to faster settlement when it publishes its plan later this year

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The MiFIR/MiFID II agreement will also see the EU ban payment for order flow

EU agrees on real-time ‘consolidated tape’ data stream for equities

The consolidated tape will include pre-trade data which was seen as essential by traders

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More than 50% of a firm's activity must come from work in the green economy for a stock to be classified as green

Exchanges agree on global framework for green stocks

The framework is set to support capital flows into the green economy while also countering greenwashing in the industry

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Natan Tiefenbrun

Cboe head: European markets must overhaul data to catch US

Unifying European equity markets is the only way to compete with America, exchange boss tells FN

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Blockchain technology

DTCC launches blockchain settlement platform

The new platform has averaged more than 100,000 transactions a day

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Mark Mobius

Mark Mobius: ‘I fear a decline of the bitcoin price’

The veteran investor said a fall in the bitcoin price could drag down the stock market

HSBC is overhauling its equities trading unit in London amid a push to Asia

HSBC cuts staff and shakes up executives in London equities unit

HSBC makes widespread job cuts at its equity trading division in London as EMEA head of sales trading Oliver Kadhim will move to Hong Kong

We need to do more to attract IPOs to London

We can't afford to be complacent, says William Russell, Lord Mayor of the City of London, and Charlotte Crosswell, chief executive of Innovate Finance

The resumption of Swiss stocks trading in London is a small Brexit win for the City

Exchange boss says UK’s Swiss trading nod is a ‘free kick’ in a losing game

Alasdair Haynes, CEO of the Aquis exchange, says he sees no prospect of a Brexit equivalence deal for equities between the UK and EU

The Bund Bull stands in Shanghai, China. Analysts at Goldman Sachs believe there are signs of the early stages of a bull market, which investors should note

Goldman seeing early stages of a bull market plus six ways investors can win

Goldman Sachs said it did not think an equities market correction was on the way

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Houlihan Lokey hires Macquarie ECM head Taylor for equity advisory unit

The hire expands its recently-established ECM advisory unit as IPOs pick up

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The GameStop saga, which has seen retail investors execute a so-called short squeeze on funds shorting the video game retailer, has led to the targeting of other stocks heavily shorted by hedge funds

These hedge fund short bets could see ‘outsized moves,’ says Jefferies

These shorted stocks could see volatile trading in the coming days and weeks

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Lawyers and regulators have advised Numis that it cannot trade for European clients

Numis warns European clients of trading halt as Brexit rules bite City brokerages

The move highlights how hard Brexit is hitting smaller City firms that lack big European operations

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The election of Joe Biden and a Democrat controlled Senate has helped buoy stock markets

Investors pile record $255bn into stocks as bull market seen raging into 2021

Unprecedented central bank stimulus amid the pandemic, the 'Blue Wave' election of Democrats and low yields are among reasons for why stocks still remain attractive

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