2021 was a big year for IPOs. With almost 1,500 companies listing around the world, the number of IPOs nearly doubled in 2021 compared to the year before. The amount of capital raised surpassed $525 billion.
As Christmas and the New Year approaches, pour yourself a glass of Bailey’s (or perhaps something more expensive if you’re one of this year’s crypto winners) and look back at some of the winners and losers of 2021.
Radovan explained what QuantPedia does as “building a bridge between academia and between portfolio managers who are always looking for new ideas with which to improve their portfolio.”
Who are the most notorious rogue traders? Do their stories share common features? Is the phenomenon of "rogue trading" an inherent part of the industry, or can better regulation and workplace culture protect against such activity?
Eight years after one of the most controversial initial public offerings of the decade, let’s revisit the Royal Mail IPO. The price of the Royal Mail stock (LON: RMG) skyrocketed shortly after it had begun trading on the London Stock Exchange. For months and years, the company was deemed undervalued and its IPO stock price a bargain.
Every now and again, something happens in the banking sector that makes you amazed nobody is going to prison. Last week it was reported that the European Commission has fined four of the world’s largest banks for involvement in price fixing on the foreign exchange markets.
Coinbase have had lower than anticipated sales and marketing expenses in Q3, the report continues. They anticipate that sales and marketing expenses will be approximately 10% of net revenue for full-year 2021. Compared to what the firm spends on technology and development, marketing is less than 7% of that amount today, let alone of the net revenue.
Singapore Fintech Festival officially kicked off yesterday. In the first episode of The Foundational Fireside Series – How Financial Services Will Change?, Vikram Pandit, Chairman and CEO of The Orogen Group and former CEO of Citigroup explored how Capital Markets are set to change in the next one to three years.
Clearly the big advantage of this product is speed: Origin are making it quicker and easier to participate in the debt capital markets. We asked Raja, therefore, if the ultimate aim of this technology is to increase volume on the bond markets: would greater streamlining and more automated processes augment the amounts being traded in this space?
We talked to Myles Milston, CEO of Globacap, to discuss how blockchain technology can facilitate a more efficient flow of capital. Globacap has digitised the shares offered by private companies on its platform and have built automated workflows on top of that.
he Real Estate industry accounts for more than 15% of China’s economy. 62-year old Hui Ka-yan owns 76 percent of Evergrande, China’s second largest property developer by sales. However, with the South China Morning Post reporting liabilities of more than $305 billion, Hui’s investment might be too big to ignore.
This mission is to automate mission critical processes, controlling workflow that can affect the entire deal. So, we offer a comprehensive solution that covers multiple asset classes.
“We’ve set up a platform that will allow you to build your own bespoke trading platform – a platform that can trade any asset class, on any broker, using any coding language. It’s a completely agnostic approach.”
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measure of inflation was released today, showing that the rate of inflation in the UK has jumped to 2.1% in the year to May. This was above market forecasts of around 1.8% and is slightly above the Bank of England’s target of 2%.