PrimaryBid, an online investment platform connecting publicly listed companies with individual investors for share offerings, has formed a new strategic commercial venture with London Stock Exchange.

Estera Bermuda’s Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) team has sponsored the listing of the Hexagon II Reinsurance DAC notes.

“The ongoing trade war and geopolitical uncertainty has made the Asian convertible bonds market a very interesting opportunity for investors as we enter the fourth quarter," says RWC Partners’ Convertibles fund manager Uday Sikand, CFA.

Intercontinental Exchange is to aunch a new exchange, ICE Futures Abu Dhabi (IFAD), to host the world’s first futures contracts based on Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s (ADNOC) Murban crude oil.

PanXchange, a physical commodities OTC market structure solutions provider, has launched an institutional-grade industrial hemp exchange. 

Negative sentiment and a move by overseas investors to shun the UK have pushed domestic equity valuations ‘back to the 90s’, according to RWC Partner’s Ian Lance.

Nasdaq Dubai and Astana International Exchange (AIX) in Kazakhstan are to establish a close operational relationship between the central securities depositories (CSDs) of both markets. 

Luzheng Futures & Guohai Liangshi Capital Management selected for cotton options market making, powered by Horizon.

Russian investors have been able to participate in the initial public offering (IPO) of a US unicorn company (capitalisation in excess of USD1 billion), thanks to a partnership between BCS Global Markets and Tigress Financial Partners.

The Emirate of Sharjah has listed a USD1 billion Sukuk on the Nasdaq Dubai taking the total value listed by the Emirate on the Middle East financial exchange to USD3.45 billion.