
Alex Ralph
Chief Business Correspondent at The Times
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1 day ago |
thetimes.com | Alex Ralph
Shortly after Wise, the UK fintech, announced plans to move its primary listing to New York on Thursday morning, the City minister and bosses of the London Stock Exchange and regulator were gathering in the Square Mile. Wise’s surprise decision coincided with the annual conference of the Quoted Companies Alliance in London on “building brilliant companies on the UK’s public markets”.
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1 day ago |
thetimes.com | Alex Ralph
The UK fintech Wise plans to move its main listing to New York to attract more investors and lift its valuation, in the latest blow to the London stock market. In a surprise move, the £12 billion company said that switching its primary listing to the US would also increase the trading liquidity in its shares and raise its profile among new customers.
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2 days ago |
thetimes.com | Alex Ralph
In the first of a new series of investor seminars in London last week, Reckitt Benckiser sought to refocus attention on the FTSE 100 consumer goods group’s core business.
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3 days ago |
thetimes.com | Alex Ralph
Britain risks missing out on billions of pounds’ worth of pharmaceutical research and development investment and new medicine launches in the NHS without an overhaul of a sales rebate agreement, according to research commissioned by the industry. The agreement includes a cap on the total sales of branded medicines to the NHS, above which sales are subject to repayment by the companies concerned. It is designed to make NHS drug expenditure predictable while encouraging the industry to innovate.
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3 days ago |
thetimes.com | Alex Ralph
A Cambridge-based surgical robotics company backed by a series of global investors is pursuing a possible sale of the business for about $4 billion. CMR Surgical, which recently raised a further $200 million from existing backers after a regulatory breakthrough in the United States, has hired advisers to consider its options. Founded in 2014, the company is based in Cambridge, where it also has a manufacturing site.
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