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Investment Press Releases & News distributed via EuropaWire

EU-EIB Project Bond Initiative launched with start of pilot phase

EU-EIB Project Bond Initiative launched with start of pilot phase Mr Werner Hoyer, President of the EIB and European Commission Vice President Mr Olli Rehn Bruxelles 07/11/2012

Bruxelles, 8-11-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — The Europe 2020 Project Bond Initiative, which aims to improve capital market financing of infrastructure, passed its final approval stage today. Following signature of a Cooperation Agreement between the European Commission and European Investment Bank, clarifying risk … Read the full press release

ASML Issues Shares to TSMC in Connection with Customer Co-Investment Program

VELDHOVEN, the Netherlands, 8-11-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — ASML Holding NV today announces that it has issued the shares planned for TSMC, one of the three participating customers in its Customer Co-Investment Program announced on 9 July 2012, issuing a total of … Read the full press release

Fiat S.p.A. announces plans to issue notes denominated in Swiss Francs

Turin, 8-11-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — Fiat S.p.A. announces that it intends to proceed, subject to market conditions, with a note issuance denominated in Swiss Francs. The benchmark issuance for the Swiss market is to be issued by Fiat Finance and Trade Ltd., … Read the full press release

Valcárcel at Nicosia informal council urges Member States to grant adequate funding for cohesion

Brussels, 8-11-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — Valcárcel at Nicosia informal council urges Member States to grant adequate funding for cohesion The President of the Committee of the Regions (CoR), Ramón Luis Valcárcel, intervened at the informal meeting of the Ministers responsible for Cohesion … Read the full press release

WeSC: Styrelsen för WeSC offentliggör fullt garanterad företrädesemission om cirka 21 MSEK

8-11-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — Styrelsen för WeSC AB (publ) (”WeSC” eller ”Bolaget”) har beslutat att genomföra en nyemission om cirka 21 MSEK med företrädesrätt för Bolagets aktieägare. Styrelsens beslut är villkorat av godkännande vid extra bolagsstämma den 23 november 2012. · … Read the full press release

Joint funding of European-African research projects agreed

Brussels, 7-11-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — The first initiative of European and African countries to jointly fund collaborative research projects will be agreed today during a visit by Research, Innovation and Science Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn to Cape Town. The calls, to be launched … Read the full press release

VTB President Andrey Kostin visits Angola

Andrey Kostin, VTB President and Chairman of the Management Board

5-11-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — VTB President and Chairman of the Management Board Andrey Kostin visited the Republic of Angola on October 31, 2012. During his working visit, Andrey Kostin met with the country’s President, José Eduardo dos Santos, and Vice-President Manuel Domingos Vicente … Read the full press release

VTB provides financing to Vyksa Steel Works

3-11-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — VTB Bank has opened a revolving credit line with a limit of RUB 6 billion (US$ 190.6 million) for Vyksa Steel Works, part of Russia’s United Metallurgical Company (OMK), for a period of three years. The company will use … Read the full press release

Enagás reports net profit of €281.4Mn

 Allowing the company to meet forecast of flat net profit growth for 2012  Cost containment remains crucial to meeting targets  Yela Underground Storage facility brought into operation, key to ensuring security of Spanish gas system  Acquisition … Read the full press release

Skanska to build office in Norway for SEK 440 M

Skanska to build office in Norway for SEK 440 M

3-11-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — Skanska has signed a contract with Ferd Eiendom AS for a new office in Kokstad, Bergen, Norway. Tenant of the new office premises is Aibel AS. The contract value amounts to NOK 380 M, about SEK 440 … Read the full press release

Profits of the Red Eléctrica Group reached €338 million in the first nine months of 2012

Profits of the Red Eléctrica Group reached €338 million in the first nine months of 2012

Investment in the transmission grid reaches 418 million 2-11-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — The Red Eléctrica Group recorded a profit of €338 million in the first nine months of 2012, representing a growth of 1.5% compared with the same period last year. … Read the full press release

Ending of covered bond purchase programme 2 (CBPP2)

1-11-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — Today, the CBPP2 ends as scheduled. On 6 October 2011, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) had decided on the CBPP2, the technical modalities of which were published on 3 November 2011. The purchases of covered … Read the full press release

Novartis to start construction of new biotechnology facility in Singapore with an investment of over USD 500 million

Investment supports growing pipeline of biologics portfolio representing 25% of current clinical pharmaceutical research pipeline Singapore will operate as a technological competence center for biotechnology and pharmaceutical production Construction of new production facility to start in early 2013 and expected … Read the full press release

Vietnam: EUR 150 million loan for climate change mitigation

31-10-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing a EUR 150 million loan to the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam with the purpose of part-financing projects that will contribute to the mitigation of climate change. The … Read the full press release

Results of the October 2012 bank lending survey for the euro area

31-10-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — The European Central Bank (ECB) is publishing today its report on the results of the October 2012 bank lending survey for the euro area. The bank lending survey, which is conducted four times a year, usually at … Read the full press release

KESKO – Osakemerkinnät Keskon 2007C-optio-oikeuksilla

KESKO OYJ PÖRSSI-ILMOITUS 30.10.2012 KLO 09.15 1(1) 30-10-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — Kesko Oyj:n vuoden 2007 optio-ohjelmaan perustuvilla 2007C-optio-oikeuksilla on merkitty 15.10.2012 mennessä yhteensä 26 038 uutta yhtiön B-osaketta. Merkityt osakkeet on tänään merkitty kaupparekisteriin.Koko merkintähinta 349 950,72 euroa kirjataan yhtiön sijoitetun vapaan oman … Read the full press release

Experian further strengthens position in Brazil with proposed acquisition of additional interest in Serasa

29-10-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — Experian, the global information services company, is pleased to announce it has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire a further interest in Serasa S.A. (“Serasa”).  Serasa is the market leading credit bureau in Brazil in which … Read the full press release

Faster and simpler access to EU funds for European businesses, towns, regions and scientists

Brussels, 29-10-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — Faster and simpler access to EU funds for European businesses, towns, regions and scientists Following the recent entry into force of the new Financial Regulation the Commission has adopted its new detailed Rules of application. The delivery … Read the full press release

RWE Technology und Dubai Electricity and Water Authority gründen Joint Venture in Dubai

Dr. Leonhard Birnbaum Vorstandsmitglied RWE AG, H.E. Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer CEO DEWA, Waleed Salman EVP strategy & business development und Dr. Michael Fübi CEO RWE Technology beim unterzeichnen des Vertrages in Dubai

Essen, 25-10-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — Die RWE Technology GmbH, Kraftwerksbauspezialist des RWE Konzerns, und die staatliche Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) haben ein gemeinsames Joint Venture gegründet. Am 22. Oktober 2012 setzten RWE-Vorstandsmitglied Leonhard Birnbaum, RWE Technology CEO Michael Fübi und … Read the full press release

BP Agrees Heads of Terms to Sell its TNK-BP Shareholding to Rosneft

Payment by Rosneft to be a mix of $17.1 billion in cash, and shares representing 12.84 per cent of Rosneft BP intends to use $4.8 billion of the cash consideration to purchase a further 5.66 per cent of Rosneft from … Read the full press release