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23 May 2012
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AIM-listed companies are proving resilient despite testing times on the LSE’s junior market, according to research by Smith & Williamson.
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23 May 2012
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This is a critical year for many professionals involved in corporate finance across the world. The Corporate Finance Faculty’s many members in companies – large and small – still face a tough commercial environment. For those in advisory and investment firms the challenges are no less daunting, given a relatively subdued market for transactions and projects.
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23 May 2012
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The taskforce set up by the UK government to take a fresh look at access to alternative debt markets – particularly for smaller businesses – has delivered its verdict. ICAEW hosted the eagerly anticipated launch of its report.
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21 Mar 2012
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ICAEW organises policy round table for UK government’s Breedon Review
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21 Mar 2012
Sam Gyimah MP calls for the creation of SME bonds for the UK.
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07 Mar 2012
The Kay Review into the UK’s equity markets seeks to improve the governance, performance and returns of listed companies. By Richard Irving.
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30 Nov 2011
London’s new retail bond market has provided a new funding source for mid-caps.
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31 Oct 2011
Can Broker Profile’s novel approach boost liquidity for small caps?
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31 Aug 2011
Profit warnings rose sharply in the first quarter of 2011. Why, and what does this mean for M&A?
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01 Mar 2011
Illiquid securities such as distressed debt are desperate for a liquid European market to relieve the pressure on financial institutions, which need to restructure their balance sheets. By Galina Alabatchka.
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01 Feb 2011
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Government investment in infrastructure is littered with tales of inefficiency and rapid obsolescence. With a little tweaking, mechanisms such as bonds could do a better job. By Michael Mainelli.
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01 Feb 2011
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Global investment banking fees, from M&A advisory to capital markets underwriting, were the highest last year since 2007, according to estimates from Thomson Reuters. Fees totalled $84bn, 9% up on 2009. Asia-Pacific investment banking fees led the regions with a 22.2% increase over 2009.
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30 Sep 2010
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Corporates are confident that economic growth will return over the next two years, but major fundraising plans are on hold as caution still reigns over corporate strategy, according to a survey by RBC Capital Markets and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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31 May 2010
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Greater competition for funding from sovereign issuers and banks in the next two years will drive up the cost of funding for European corporates, according to Moody’s Investors Service. This article first appeared as 'Corporate funding costs to rise, says Moody’s' in Corporate Financier, magazine of the ICAEW Corporate Finance Faculty, in May 2010.
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01 Feb 2010
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Cove Energy raised almost £50m to buy distressed oil and gas assets in emerging
markets. Brian Bollen says the autumn 2009 deals show that AIM investors have not lost their appetite for the right kind of risk. This article first appeared as ‘The black gold rush‘ in Corporate Financier, magazine of the ICAEW Corporate Finance Faculty, in February 2010.
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26 Sep 2006
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Hydrogen Group, formed in November 2005 to provide a mid-senior talent offering in the recruitment sector, successfully listed on the London Stock Exchange's (LSE's) junior market, AIM, on 29 September 2006.