A year ago, Barclays unveiled a new multi-year partnership with London Stock Exchange owner LSEG. According to the announcement the deal “includes a wide range of capabilities to support Barclays across the full ecosystem of businesses to enhance delivery for customers and clients and prepare for the next generation in financial services.”
A year on, how’s that all going? When Barclays published its results to the RNS yesterday morning, not one of the roughly two dozen links contained therein appeared to work, returning ‘page not found’ errors. Enhanced delivery?
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Meanwhile, LSEG boss David Schwimmer for once has sounded a bullish note about the prospects for the London IPO market over the coming months.
He told reporters yesterday: “A number of companies have made some indications that they are coming to this market so I feel pretty confident about the pipeline and the direction of travel.”
I’ll believe it when I see it.
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