Keeping costs in check is always important – and as companies look to chart a course beyond the pandemic, that’s likely to be as critical as ever in 2021. At Avenir, our belief has always been that we can use…
Introduction What a year that was - and for all the wrong reasons. Starting with optimism and hope for the Capital Markets, and with AIM being 25 years old, celebrations for this landmark achievement were in full swing. However, that…
Back in October, we wrote about our support for those Irish companies who have found themselves forced into a CSD migration as a side-effect of Brexit. A key message when we’re talking to these issuers is that we don’t need…
The COVID pandemic has wrecked lives and livelihoods across the globe, but businesses have been obliged to function throughout the turmoil. Initial financial support from the government was quick to arrive and widely reported in the press, although arguably the…
For almost 30 years, shares and many other securities which are traded on the Euronext Dublin – formerly the Irish Stock Exchange – have been cleared and settled on London’s CREST system, operated by Euroclear UK & Ireland. That means,…
As financial markets and the wider economy emerge from the COVID-19 lock-down, will issuers be taking a different view when it comes to the price of maintaining their exchange listing? After all, looking at the slew of capital raises we’ve…
Many hope that a new entrepreneurial dynamism can be the saviour of the UK economy, having been laid low by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and as challenges loom following the UK’s exit from the EU. Certainly the UK…
In 2014, we established Avenir Registrars with the intention of bringing something new to the world of securities registries. Looking around the industry back then, it quickly became evident that the vast majority of providers were still operating in a…
The first Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD) was implemented in 2007 with the aim of encouraging better engagement with shareholders. However, the financial crisis of 2008 evidently made it clear that the ambitions of the directive had failed, with the European…
The current economic climate has resulted in a growing number of companies seeking fresh capital, either simply to survive or otherwise in a bid to make the most of the distressed market conditions. This has re-ignited the debate about shareholder…