(Reuters) -Derivatives exchange operator CBOE is partnering with a London-based tech firm, Globacap, to create a U.S. trading platform for shares of closely held companies, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. CBOE Private Markets has already registered with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) as a broker-dealer last month, the report said, adding that the platform …
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Planning Inspectorate on Thursday granted development consent to a large solar farm project comprising three electricity-generating stations with anticipated capacity in excess of 50 megawatts. The Cottam Solar Project in East Midlands has been classified as a nationally significant infrastructure project, and would also include the development of energy storage and …
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By Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) -Banks and payment companies in Britain might only have to reimburse fraud victims by up to 85,000 pounds ($111,460) – far short of an expected 415,000 pound payout cap – under new proposals published by a British regulator on Wednesday. The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) said it was calling an …
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By Laura Matthews NEW YORK (Reuters) -A shift to shorter settlement for U.S. securities transactions earlier this year had a greater-than-anticipated impact on market participants across the board, with Europe reporting the greatest hit, a Citigroup survey showed. The United States sped up its settlement cycle in May, requiring that equities, corporate and municipal bonds …
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By Kenrick Cai, Krystal Hu, Anna Tong SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK -Safe Superintelligence (SSI), newly co-founded by OpenAI’s former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised $1 billion in cash to help develop safe artificial intelligence systems that far surpass human capabilities, company executives told Reuters. SSI, which currently has 10 employees, plans to use the funds …
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By Timothy Gardner and Benjamin Mallet WASHINGTON/PARIS (Reuters) -France’s state-owned nuclear fuel company Orano has selected Oak Ridge, Tennessee as a preferred site to build a multi-billion dollar U.S. uranium enrichment plant, Tennessee and Orano officials said on Wednesday. The move comes months after the administration of President Joe Biden signed legislation meant to eventually …
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By Nerijus Adomaitis OSLO (Reuters) – Norway’s government asked an appeals court on Wednesday to lift injunctions against developing three oil and gas fields, part of a wider effort by Oslo to overturn an earlier verdict invalidating the permits on environmental grounds. A lower court ruled in January that Norway’s energy ministry failed to fully …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s crude oil imports from Venezuela this year have already topped 2023’s total, data released by Cores, an arm of the Energy and Environment Ministry, showed on Wednesday. In July, Spain imported 353,000 tons of crude from Venezuela, taking the January-July total to 1.7 million tons. That was almost triple the amount …
By Sinead Cruise LONDON (Reuters) – UK-based banks are stepping up lobbying efforts against possible tax hikes in the government’s inaugural Budget on Oct. 30, amid mounting worries it may tap the cash-rich sector to boost Britain’s finances, senior industry sources told Reuters. Finance minister Rachel Reeves is due to meet senior representatives of the …
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By Jonathan Cable LONDON (Reuters) -Euro zone business activity received a boost from France hosting the Olympic Games last month but the malaise in the bloc is likely to return once the Paralympics wraps up as demand remains weak, a survey showed. HCOB’s composite Purchasing Managers’ Index for countries in the currency union, compiled by …
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