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In 2017, IEX received final approval to start listing companies. The stock exchange, founded in 2012 and made famous by Michael Lewis’ book Flash Boys, planned to lure companies from other exchanges. The following year it announced its first capture, Interactive Brokers, which moved over from Nasdaq. But nobody else followed suit. Earlier this week, IEX announced it would quit the listings business and focus on its core area of trading, while also launchi...

Richard Davies launched his eponymous investor relations firm back in 2002. Over the following 17 years, Richard Davies Investor Relations, or RD:IR, grew to be one of the best-known IR firms in the UK, acting for more than 500 British issuers.  During that time, Davies himself played a high-profile role in the investor relations community, chairing the UK’s IR Society for t...

The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has stepped up its regulatory technology for listed companies as part of a move to improve the technology used on the exchange.  In the context of more and more listed companies and increasingly intensified regulatory complexity, traditional regulatory methods have found it difficult to meet existing demand, reveals the SSE in a statement. ‘Breaking through the bottlenecks and innovating in regulatory methods through techn...

In the first seven months of 2019, UK-based technology companies have attracted investment of £5.5 bn ($6.7 bn) – more than in the whole of 2018. Much of the money has come from investors in Asia and the US, which have pumped a total of £3.1 bn into UK tech firms. At the current rate, the target is set to beat 2017’s total investment record of $9.4 bn, according to data from Tech Nation, a network of tech entrepreneurs, and Dealroom, the group that tracks inno...