Copenhagen-based coatings manufacturer Hempel announced it agreed to acquire Dorset, England-based luxury paint and wallpaper company Farrow & Ball from the Los Angeles-based private equity group of…
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Veolia has agreed in principle to acquire Suez in a merger deal worth roughly €13 billion after months of bitter fighting between the two French waste and…
Columbia Threadneedle Investments parent firm Ameriprise Financial, Inc. said it signed a definitive agreement with Toronto based BMO Financial Group (BMO) to acquire its Europe,…
Swedish payments firm Trustly said on Monday it intends to list its shares on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange in a deal that analysts said could…
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU securities regulator, has published its third annual statistical report on the Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) sector,…
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) has announced that Norway’s $1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund has made its first direct investment in a renewable energy infrastructure. The fund…
The European Commission has approved plans by the government of France to grant up to €4 billion for the recapitalisation of Air France through its…
Switzerland’s Credit Suisse said on Tuesday it will take a 4.4 billion Swiss franc ($4.7 billion) writedown connected to its exposure to US-based hedge fund…
Volvo Cars has announced it will give all its 40,000 employees worldwide with at least one year’s service 24 weeks paid parental leave “at 80%…
Switzerland’s Credit Suisse has warned that its first quarter results could suffer a material impact after the bank started exiting positions after a US hedge…
Deutsche Bank has announced a major reorganisation of its management board involving a number of changes including a new contract for CEO Christian Sewing that runs…
UK-based insurer Aviva said on Friday it agreed to sell its entire shareholding in Aviva Poland to Germany’s Allianz for €2.5 billion in cash, completing a programme…
CTP NV, an owner and operator of logistics parks in Central and Eastern Europe, said on Thursday it priced shares in its initial public offering…
French supermarket giant Carrefour announced it will buy Brazil’s third-biggest food retailer Grupo BIG from Walmart and investment firm Advent International in a deal that…
The European Commission has cleared, with conditions, EssilorLuxottica’s €7.2 billion acquisition of Dutch eyewear retailer GrandVision after the Ray-Ban maker agreed to sell more than 300…
The European Central Bank bought €21.1 billion of bonds under its pandemic emergency purchase programme (PEPP) in the week to March 17. That’s an increase…
Finland’s Nokia on Tuesday announced plans to cut up to 10,000 jobs as it moves to reset its cost base and invest in R&D and…
The European Union on Monday launched legal action against the UK for unilaterally changing trading arrangements for Northern Ireland that the EU argues breach the…
The market value of Dublin and San Francisco-headquartered digital payments giant Stripe has soared to $95 billion with a round of funding that took it…
Davy, Ireland’s largest stockbroker, has put itself up for sale, the firm said late on Thursday. The move follows a record Central Bank of Ireland fine…
The European Central Bank (ECB) pledged on Thursday to accelerate the pace at which it buys government debt securities over the next three months to contain the rising…
Dublin-based aircraft leasing giant AerCap Holdings N.V. announced it entered a definitive agreement with General Electric to acquire GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) in a deal worth…