• Reuters

    US urges Britain to pick a date for stock market shake up

    Britain should set a date for halving the time it takes to settle a stock trade - and stick with it, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler said on Thursday. Britain has said that UK stock markets should halve the time it takes to settle a trade on the London Stock Exchange and other platforms by the end of 2027, at the latest, to match Wall Street's move last month to complete a stock trade within one business day (T+1). The European Union has said that moving from T+2 to T+1 is a matter of when, rather than if, and some industry officials want Britain and the EU to synchronise the shift given the markets are interlinked.

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  • Reuters

    Aurubis appoints new CEO in management reshuffle

    Tim Kurth, a managing director of the Bulgarian branch, will be appointed Chief Operations Officer for custom smelting, the company added in a statement on Thursday. In January, the copper producer said it had agreed to terminate the contracts of its chief executive and chief financial officers in a top-level reshuffle over their handling of an alleged theft and fraud. Aurubis shares were up 4.67% as of 1444 GMT but had begun rising hours before the announcement, trading up 7.2% as of 1226 GMT.