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Nomura, Asia's global investment bank, announces that it has entered into a definitive agreement with American Century Investments (“American Century”) and CIBC to acquire a non-controlling 41 percent economic interest in American Century.

EnterNext, the Euronext subsidiary dedicated to promoting and growing the market for small and medium-sized companies (SMEs), today congratulated Parrot, a pioneer in wireless products, on its successful rights issue on Euronext Paris. It was the largest capital increase of a mid-size French tech business in recent years.

The strong order book gathered €2.2 billion from 175 institutional European investors. This success reaffirms the interest for and the trust in CNP Assurances credit.

Euronext, the eurozone's leading exchange, today announced a major change in the methodology used for its Low Carbon 100 Europe Index®, revolutionising the traditional approach to assessing companies' CO2 emissions. This new method is based on a more efficient means of measuring the energy performance of businesses, and offers investors a unique index-based solution.