Almirall, S.A. the global pharmaceutical company based in Barcelona, announces today that it has signed an agreement to acquire one hundred per cent of the share capital of Poli Group Holding S.r.l., the holding company of Poli Group. Poli Group comprises three operating companies (Taurus Pharma GmbH, Polichem S.A. and Polichem S.r.l).

As yet, sterling appears not to have reacted to the looming referendum on the UK's continued membership of the European Union. Over the short to medium term, however, the currency should end up reacting negatively, so great is the fallout for the British economy. In particular, one would expect the volatility displayed by sterling to pick up at the start of 2016, bearing in mind that opinion polls are very tight...

Research shows concentrated financial risk as the world's 30 G-SIBs have $59.759 trillion in exposures; the top 20 banks account for 83% of that total

EnterNext, the Euronext subsidiary dedicated to promoting and growing the market for SMEs, today congratulated Direct Energie, a key player in the French energy market, on its listing in Compartment B of the regulated market at Euronext Paris.

Fitch Ratings says in its latest Macro-Prudential Monitor that global credit growth is not likely to have a strong pick-up in 2015. Hence, macro-prudential risk indicators (MPI) could continue to trend lower with the highest risks still largely confined to emerging markets (EMs).