24 February 2012 | Joss Alcraft
The Deutsche Boerse has announced that the fourth and lowest segment of the Frankfurt stock exchange (the First Quotation Board (“FQB”)) will be discontinued from the third quarter of this year. The...
Tags on this discussion: AIM Boerse corporate Corporate law Delisting Deutsche Deutsche Boerse Entry Entry Standard Exchange First Quotation Board Frankfurt law PLUS Quotation Board Segment Standard Stock Stock Exchange
29 November 2011 | Joss Alcraft
The Chancellor announced during his Autumn Statement today that people who invest up to £100,000 in a qualifying new start-up business would be eligible for income tax relief of 50 per cent. This relief...
Tags on this discussion: corporate_tax tax EIS SEIS Seed_EIS seed_capital Autumn_statement Chancellor Budget
4 August 2011 | Joss Alcraft
The UK has introduced new rules which are aimed at making it easier for SMEs to raise equity financing a year earlier than originally intended.
With effect from 1st August 2011, companies will be able...
Tags on this discussion: corporate corporate finance equity European Union Fundraising Prospectus Prospectus directive SME SMEs
29 July 2011 | Joss Alcraft
Today is the last day for submission of responses to the Financial Reporting Council's consultation paper on whether the UK Corporate Governance Code should be revised to require listed companies to ...
Tags on this discussion: company law corporate finance corporate governance diversity gender diversity Matthew Arnold Baldwin women in business
13 May 2011 | Joss Alcraft
The time to respond to the consultation paper published by the Code Committee of the Takeover Panel in March 2011 is coming to an end. Officially, you have two weeks from today. The consultation was...
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24 January 2011 | Joss Alcraft
Three new authorities – for banking, markets and insurance – commenced work on 1st January 2011 with the not insubstantial task of overhauling financial supervision in Europe. The EC has been busy...
Tags on this discussion: Corporate ; Financial Services ; Prospectus Directive ; Company/commercial Finance Fundraising
