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Brenntag shareholder PrimeStone calls for end to Univar takeover talks

By Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Activist investor PrimeStone has urged German chemicals distributor Brenntag to end talks with potential takeover target Univar Solutions and instead buy back shares and prepare for a break-up into two separate companies. PrimeStone, which two years ago pushed for cost cuts at British wealth manager St. James’s Place, made its …

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Lufthansa exec board to receive bonuses for 2021, 2022 despite state aid – Handelsblatt

BERLIN (Reuters) -Executive board members at German airline Lufthansa will each receive several million euros as a bonus for 2021 and 2022 despite the company receiving pandemic-related state aid during that time, German daily Handelsblatt reported on Tuesday. The supervisory board approved the payments at a meeting in early December, Handelsblatt reported, citing company sources. …

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British bank TSB fined 48.7 million pounds over botched IT migration

By Tom Wilson and Jesús Aguado LONDON/MADRID (Reuters) -British lender TSB has been fined 48.65 million pounds ($59.1 million) over a botched IT platform migration in 2018 that locked millions of its customers out of their accounts, UK regulators said on Tuesday. The IT upgrade “immediately experienced technical failures”, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and …

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Moscow Exchange says 2022 trading volumes surpassed $14.4 trillion

By Elena Fabrichnaya MOSCOW (Reuters) -Trading volumes on Moscow Exchange, Russia’s largest bourse, surpassed 1 quadrillion roubles ($14.44 trillion) for the second year running, it said on Monday, in part due to enhanced repo operations turnover. “The current year has not been easy. Markets faced unprecedented challenges,” said Yuri Denisov, head of MOEX Group, which …

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Vattenfall wins tender to build Finland’s first large wind farm at sea

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Sweden’s Vattenfall on Tuesday said it had entered a joint venture with Finland’s state-owned land administrator Metsahallitus to build the country’s first large offshore wind farm. The project, estimated to cost between 2 billion and 3 billion euros ($2.1 billion-$3.2 billion), will have a capacity of 1.3 gigawatts (GW) which is equivalent …

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