Economic and Market News for 5 January 2021

Advertising technologies company, Tremor International, has announced on 4 January 2021 it bought-back 37,770 ordinary shares of NIS0.01 each in the market at a price of 386.8 pence per share....

Spectra Systems, which provides technology for secure transactions, has announced that on 4 January, WH Ireland Limited purchased for cancellation 200,000 of Spectra's common shares at a price of...

Biopharmaceutical group Hemogenyx Pharmaceuticals said it had entered into a master translational research services agreement with the University of Pennsylvania to advance the chimeric antigen...

GEM Capital said it had received acceptances for its offer to acquire Volga Gas from shareholders who represent about 88.4% of the latter's total shares. The company also said its offer, had now...

Data, analytics and insights provider GlobalData said Bernard Cragg would stand down as chairman and be succeeded by Murray Legg. Legg would assume the role of independent non-executive chairman...

Construction materials business Saint-Gobain said it had entered into exclusive negotiations with Building Materials Europe in relation to the sale of its distribution activities business in the...

Security company G4S said Allied Universal had published the offer document disclosing full terms of the agreed takeover offer for the company. The takeover would remain open for acceptance...

Energy industry software provider Getech said it had secured a multi-year licence agreement for its globe product with an unnamed national energy company. An additional option had also been...

Outsourcing business Equiniti said it had appointed Paul Lynam as chief executive starting 1 April 2021. Lynam, who would be suceeding Guy Wakeley, had been in the role since 2014, had been CEO...

Pharmaceutical company Allergy Therapeutics said an ex-vivo biomarker study was underway at Imperial College London to evaluate the company's peanut allergy vaccine candidate. The study aimed to...

Medical and energy engineering company Avingtrans said it would own a 58.4% stake in a new medtech joint venture, formed by the merger of its two medical equipment businesses, Scientific Magnetics...

Biotechnology company Destiny Pharma said it expected to release results for the phase 2b clinical trial evaluating its XF-73 nasal gel drug candidate used to prevent post-surgical infections such...

Infrastructure solutions company Costain said it expected to report full-year results in line with expectations as it continued to operate productively with effective safety measures in place...

Investment company Apax Global Alpha said it had agreed to sell a minority stake in Paycor, a provider of SaaS payroll and human capital management software, to a group of investors. The...

Infrastructure group Belfour Beatty said it expected to complete its previously announced initial £50 million buyback programme by the time it releases 2020 full-year results on 10 March 2021....

Infrastructure company John Laing said it had agreed to acquire a 21.15% interest in the Pacifico 2 road public-private partnership project in Colombia from Construcciones El Condor for COP151...

Iron-ore producer Ferrexpo declared a special interim dividend of 13.2 US cents following 'strong' operational and financial performance in 2020, and a strong balance sheet. To date, dividends...