Is Labour’s Planning Bill putting private equity at risk? May 16, 2025 It’s not just conservationists who are up in arms about the watering down of environmental protections in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, the private markets are concerned too, says Robert Oates There’s an irony at the heart of the UK government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill: in its rush to accelerate the development of 1.5m new [...]
Are private markets approaching a tipping point? April 15, 2025 As money continues to pour into private markets, concerns are mounting that the sector is expanding too fast in an unfriendly environment. In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in private markets, with fundraising doubling over the last decade, leading to $13.1 trillion (£9.9 trillion) in assets under management across the sector. [...]
Is Pisces a solution looking for a problem? February 28, 2025 There’s a good reason no other jurisdiction has created a regulated private stock market… argues Delphine Currie Imitation, it is often said, is the sincerest form of flattery, so it’s perhaps for that reason that, in November of last year, the Chancellor resuscitated the previous government’s plans for the world’s first regulated private stock market. [...]
Pisces: City figures raise concerns over viability of private market February 26, 2025 City figures have raised concerns over the Financial Conduct Authority’s plan for the new ‘Pisces’ market designed to allow share trading for private companies, warning that the scheme could “undermine the credibility of UK markets”. Pisces—the Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System—was devised by the previous government as part of efforts to revive UK [...]
Schroders shares plummet after investors pull £2.3bn November 5, 2024 Schroders, one of the largest asset managers in the UK, has reported a jump in outflows over the last quarter, sending its stock price plummeting more than 14 per cent this morning.
Marula Mining Plc November 1, 2024 | Sponsored Marula Mining Plc (AQSE: MARU A2X: MARU) is an African focused battery metals investment and exploration company and has interests in several high value mining operations and mine development projects in Africa: the Blesberg Lithium and Tantalum Mine, Northern Cape Lithium and Tungsten Project, Korridor Lithium Project and Kruisrivier Cobalt Mine, all in South Africa; [...]
Mendell Helium Plc November 1, 2024 | Sponsored Mendell Helium announced on 27 June 2024 that it has entered into an option agreement to acquire the entire issued share capital of M3 Helium through the issue of 57,611,552 new ordinary shares in Mendell Helium to M3 Helium’s shareholders. The exercise of the option will constitute a reverse takeover pursuant to AQSE Rule 3.6 [...]
Invinity Energy Systems PLC November 1, 2024 | Sponsored Invinity Energy Systems is the leading global manufacturer of modular vanadium flow batteries, the most commercially proven alternative to lithium-ion, for utility-scale energy storage for businesses, industry and electricity networks around the world. The Company has 75 MWh of VFBs deployed at, or contracted for delivery to, 82 sites across 18 countries, more than any [...]
Valereum PLC November 1, 2024 | Sponsored Valereum (VLRM) Plc is building the future of finance by revolutionising financial markets. Its aim is to be the global market leader in the rapidly developing tokenised digital markets sector, through its exchange, marketplaces, and a groundbreaking suite of turn-key technology solutions. VLRM Markets VLRM Markets plans to establish and operate licensed and regulated public [...]
Ananda Developments PLC November 1, 2024 | Sponsored Ananda is dedicated to developing medicines to treat complex, chronic inflammatory pain conditions. With 28 million people in the UK alone dealing with chronic pain and the NHS spending over £5 billion annually on musculoskeletal pain, there is a pressing need for better, more effective treatments. In many conditions which exhibit complex, chronic inflammation and [...]