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Introduction en bourse de Biocorp

Enternext accueille Biocorp sur Alternext à Paris

Jacques Gardette, Fondateur et Président-directeur général de Biocorp, sonne l'ouverture des marchés boursiers.

Biocorp est spécialisé dans le développement et la fabrication de dispositifs médicaux et de systèmes d'administration de médicaments. La société propose des systèmes de délivrance traditionnels, des systèmes d'injection connectés ainsi que des dispositifs de suivi.
A fin 2014, Biocorp dispose d'un site de production implanté en France.

IPO Flow Traders

IPO Flow Traders on Euronext Amsterdam

Flow Traders co-CEO Dennis Dijkstra sounded the Gong to open trading at Euronext Amsterdam. Together with co-CEO Sjoerd Rietberg, he officially opened trading in Flow Traders shares in Amsterdam.

Flow Traders is an independent technology-enabled liquidity provider in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). Flow Traders was founded in 2004 in Amsterdam and has grown into a globally operating fin tech company with over 200 employees. With offices in Amsterdam, Singapore and Cluj, Flow Traders is active on 94 trading venues in 32 countries. In total, Flow Traders provides liquidity in over 4,000 ETP listing and trades in over 11,000 financial instruments.

Sjoerd Rietberg: “We are thrilled to complete our IPO with today’s listing on Euronext Amsterdam. The strong demand we have seen from investors, their high level of recognition of our innovative business model and track record and the support for our growth strategy confirm our confidence in a bright future as a listed company. We would like to welcome our new shareholders and are thankful for the trust they have placed in our company.”

For more information: www.flowtraders.com

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Mint Tower Capital Management

Mint Tower Capital Management sounds gong to celebrate Euronext membership

Today, Mint Tower Capital Management sounds the gong to celebrate becoming a member of Euronext. Wilrik Sinia, Director Mint Tower Capital Management, sounds the gong.

Mint Tower is the manager of the Mint Tower Arbitrage Fund, a rapidly growing open-end "absolute return" investment fund, aiming to achieve stable positive returns, irrespective of the direction of the markets.

Amsterdam based Mint Tower boasts a highly experienced investment team that combines proven arbitrage strategies, particularly in stock options and convertible bonds. These strategies have a low correlation with the equity markets and are therefore suitable as part of a diversified investment portfolio.

The membership enables Mint Tower to trade even more efficiently on Euronext markets.

For more information:  www.minttowercapital.com

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Lancement des premiers turbos sur Euronext Bruxelles par Société Générale

Lancement des premiers turbos sur Euronext Bruxelles par Société Générale

Société Générale a lancé, pour la première fois, sur Euronext Bruxelles une nouvelle gamme de produits listés : les SOCIETE GENERALE (FR) TURBOS INFINIS BEST. Afin de célébrer cet événement, Sébastien David, Sales Produits Listés France-Belgique de Société Générale a ouvert les marchés, ce mercredi 8 juillet 2015, en sonnant la cloche en compagnie de Katherine Haesaerts, Cross Asset Solutions, Sales Benelux de Société Générale.

Pour en savoir plus sur ces nouveaux produits, veuillez consulter le communiqué de presse Launch of a new product range listed on Euronext Brussels: SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE (FR) TURBOS INFINIS BEST

40th edition North Sea Jazz Festival

Sounding of the gong for 40th edition North Sea Jazz Festival

BNP Paribas opens trading as partner of North Sea Jazz to mark the 40^th edition of the festival. CEO BNP Paribas The Netherlands, Anne Marie Verstraeten, sounds the gong.

North Sea Jazz, this year held for the 10^th time in the city of Rotterdam, is the largest indoor music festival in the world, known globally as the event where the past, present and future of jazz are featured within three days. Next to a firm base of jazz many genres will pass by, such as blues, soul, funk, hip hop, world, pop and more. To give an impression of forty years of North Sea Jazz history, the festival is presenting several iconic artists from each decade starting from 1976, including Stanley Clarke, Roy Hargrove, Bill Frisell, bassist Avishai Cohen and José James.

For more information: www.northseajazz.com

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Citroën launches DS

Gong sounding Citroën marks launch of new car brand

Peter Spelt, General Manager Citroen / DS in the Netherlands, sounds the gong to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Citroën DS and the launch of the new luxury French car brand DS in the Netherlands.

DS, part of Euronext listed PSA Peugeot Citroën (ticker symbol: UG) has officially started as an independent car manufacturer with the aim to revamp the tradition of French premium cars.

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the iconic DS; a car that instantly became world famous. The classic DS still enjoys great popularity among the Dutch, judging by many DS owners who still use the car for everyday transport.

For more information: www.citroen.nl/ds

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Entrepreneurship Summer School

Entrepreneurship Summer School celebrates 10th anniversary by sounding the gong

The 10^th edition of the yearly Entrepreneurship Summer School, organized by Rabobank Amsterdam and the Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE), will kick off by sounding the gong. Prof. dr. Enno Masurel, Scientific Director at Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship and initiator of the Entrepreneurship Summer School, opens trading together with (future) student-entrepreneurs, the team of ACE and Rabobank Amsterdam.

The Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship encourages entrepreneurship by providing a broad education and research program and contributes to the development of entrepreneurship skills and knowledge.

The Entrepreneurship Summer School provides 35 students the opportunity to develop their business idea into a solid business plan in one week. By following workshops and attending the entrepreneurship helpdesk. During the finals, five finalists pitch their idea to a professional jury. The student entrepreneurs can win entrepreneurship consultation from Rabobank Amsterdam and the Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship when starting their business. During the forthcoming final on July 10^th, the results of a research that has been done under the 256 participants in the Summer school Entrepreneurship over the past 9 years will be announced.

For more information: www.ace-amsterdam.org/summerschool-ondernemerschap/

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Euro Medium Term Notes Ghelamco Invest

Bell Ceremony pour célébrer la cotation des obligations (Euro Medium Term Notes) émises par Ghelamco Invest

Ce vendredi 3 juillet 2015, Paul Gheysens, CEO de Ghelamco Group, a ouvert les marchés financiers à Euronext Bruxelles en sonnant la cloche afin de célébrer la cotation des obligations émises par Ghelamco Invest pour une valeur de 77.1 millions d’euros. Le taux d’intérêt fixe s’élève à 4.5% brut par an.

Belfius Bank, BNP Paribas Fortis et KBC Bank étaient les Lead Managers de cette opération. 

GhelamcoGroup est l’un des principaux investisseurs européens dans le domaine immobilier et un développeur actif dans les secteurs des bureaux, du résidentiel, de la vente au détail, de la logistique et des loisirs. Ses projets de haute qualité sur les marchés belge, néerlandais, français, polonais, russe et ukrainien allient des emplacements stratégiques à des conceptions performantes.

Pour en savoir plus sur la société Ghelamco, rendez-vous sur : www.ghelamco.be

27th edition Robeco SummerNights

Summer Gong Ceremony to celebrate the 27th edition of Robeco SummerNights

Robeco and the Royal Concertgebouw have extended their 27-year Robeco SummerNights partnership by another three years. To mark this occasion both parties open trading at the Amsterdam exchange. Hester Borrie, a member of the Group Management Board, Marketing & Sales at Robeco sounds the gong accompanied by Simon Reinink,General Manager of the Concertgebouw. Saxophonist Benjamin Herman will provide a suitably summery performance prior to the ceremony.

More than eighty concerts from genres like classical, pop, jazz and world music can be heard this summer in The Concertgebouw, with the final concert taking place on 30 August. Robeco SummerNights is entering its 27^th year, and aims to bring high-quality music in an accessible manner to the attention of a large public during the summer months.

For more information: www.robecosummernights.nl

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Junior Achievement Portugal

Junior Achievement Portugal rings the opening bell – 2nd of July

Junior Achievement Portugal rang the opening bell to promote Junior Achievement Europe Enterprise Challenge, the Fair of the best business ideas generated over StartUp Programme across Europe that happens in Lisbon.

Kiadis Pharma

Kiadis Pharma celebrates IPO by sounding gong

By sounding the gong, Kiadis Pharma celebrates its IPO on Euronext Amsterdam and Euronext Brussels. CEO of Kiadis Pharma, Manfred Rüdiger, sounds the gong to open trading.

Kiadis Pharma is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on research, development and future commercialisation of cell-based immunotherapy products for the treatment of blood cancers and inherited blood disorders.

Rüdiger: “We are delighted to have joined Euronext today. Kiadis Pharma's IPO received significant interest from local, European and US investors and now we intend to advance our pipeline of products that will potentially save the lives of thousands of blood cancer and inherited blood disorder patients.”

For more information: www.kiadis.com 

HiPay

Enternext accueille HiPay  sur Euronext à Paris

Cyril Zimmermann, Président de HiPay, sonne la clôture des marchés boursiers.

HiPay Group est spécialisé dans le développement de solutions de paiement en ligne. La société met à la disposition des e-commerçants et des éditeurs de contenus numériques une plate-forme de paiement bancaire en ligne (HiPay Fullservice) répondant aux exigences monétiques et sécuritaires du commerce en ligne transfrontalier. En outre, HiPay Group propose une solution de micropaiement permettant la monétisation des biens digitaux de faibles montants sur Internet (HiPay Mobile).

Mota Engil

Mota Engil rings the closing bell – 1st of July

To celebrate the listing of €95 million in bonds, Mota Engil CEO rang the Closing Bell. He was accompanied by management team, along with the Euronext team

ICBC Group CCB

Jianqing Jiang, CEO of ICBC Group CCB, opens the European trading day in Paris

Euronext and ICBC celebrate the signature of the Memorandum of Understanding.

The MOU (Memorandum of Understanding ), signed in Paris in the presence of the Prime Minister of France, Mr. Manuel Valls and the Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China,

Mr. LI Keqiang will aim to enhance ICBC’s access to European capital markets, by exploring the bank’s application for becoming a trading member of the markets operated by Euronext; facilitating access to Euronext products and markets and enabling payment and settlement in RMB.

Through its continuous endeavor and stable development, the Bank has developed into the top large listed bank in the world, possessing an excellent customer base, a diversified business structure, strong innovation capabilities and market competitiveness. The Bank has its presence in six continents, and its overseas network has expanded to 41 countries and regions.The Bank provides comprehensive financial products and services to 5,090 thousand corporate customers and 465 million personal customers by virtue of the distribution channels consisting of 17,122 domestic institutions, 338 overseas institutions and 2,007 correspondent banks worldwide, as well as through its E-banking network comprising a range of Internet and telephone banking services and self-service banking centers, forming a diversified and internationalized operating structure focusing on commercial banking business and maintaining a leading position in the domestic market in the commercial banking sector.In 2014, the Bank was named the “Global Bank of the Year” by The Banker, ranked the first place among the Top 1000 World Banks by the Banker and the largest enterprise in the world among the Global 2000 listed by the US magazine Forbes for the second consecutive year.

RELX

CFO marks name change from Reed Elsevier to RELX by sounding gong

Nick Luff, CFO of RELX NV (ticker symbol: RELX), opens trading at the Amsterdam exchange to mark the official name change of the company’s Amsterdam listed shareholding vehicle from Reed Elsevier NV to RELX NV. This shorter and more modern name reflects the transformation of the company to a technology, content and analytics driven business while maintaining the link with its proud heritage. 

The name change is part of an effort to simplify the corporate structure of the company, helping clarify the economic interests of parent company shareholders, and increase share price transparency. 

Luff sounds the gong in the company of among others Jans van der Woude, Company Secretary, and Colin Tennant, Head of Investor Relations.

For more information: www.relxgroup.com

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Amplitude Surgical

Enternext accueille Amplitude Surgical sur Euronext à Paris

Olivier Jallabert, Président-directeur général d'Amplitude Surgical, sonne la clôture des marchés boursiers.

Amplitude Surgical est spécialisé dans la conception, la fabrication et la commercialisation d'implants dédiés à la chirurgie des articulations du genou et de la hanche. En outre, le groupe propose des instruments orthopédiques, des prestations de support technique et de services logistiques.

Mithra Pharmaceuticals

Entrée en Bourse de Mithra Pharmaceuticals sur Euronext Bruxelles

Depuis le 30 juin 2015, Mithra Pharmaceuticals est cotée sur Euronext Bruxelles. Pour célébrer cet événement , François Fornieri, CEO de Mithra, a ouvert les marchés européens en sonnant la cloche et a eu l’honneur d’inscrire le premier cours sur le tableau des cours.

Mithra Pharmaceuticals est spécialisée dans le développement, la fabrication et la commercialisation de produits de santé féminine. Le groupe propose des pilules, des médicaments pour le traitement du dérèglement hormonal, des vitamines de grossesse, des compléments alimentaires, des produits d'hygiène intime, des dispositifs de contraception, etc.

L’action est cotée avec le code mnémo : MITRA

Pour en savoir plus, consulter : www.mithra.com

CBK-CCBI RQFII Money Market UCITS ETF

CBK-CCBI RQFII Money Market UCITS ETF, Le premier ETF libellé en RMB admis sur Euronext

Hongzhang WANG, Chairman of the Boards of Directors, CCB, ouvre les marchés européens à Paris

Euronext est honoré d'acceuillir China Construction Bank Corporation International  - CCBI - en tant que nouvel émetteur ETF.

Euronext est très fiers d’accueillir son 19ème Emetteur d'ETF, China Construction Bank International CCBI, sur ses marchés ainsi que le premier ETF traité en Renminbi sur Euronext: Commerzbank-CCBI RQFII Money Market UCITS ETF.
Cet ETF est disponible en Euro et en Renminbi.
CCBI et Euronext ont également l'honneur de vous annoncer la signature d'un Memorandum of Understanding visant a promouvoir l'internationalisation du Renminbi sur les marches de capitaux Europeens.