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26.11.2021
You will find a listing of IRO community links below. It is important to build your professional network by joining the right IR community. You will find on their website details on memberships. Networkings, trainings are available through their website. Praexo was born with one objective: to make issuers autonomous and efficient in managing, identifying, and understanding investor’s & shareholder's expectations. In nowadays, customer feedbacks is highly appreciated and are always searching for answers to improve. “We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s’ how we improve”, Bill Gates, Microsoft. Feedbacks are important in a customer journey, although, it seems that this is not applied for IRO. The feedbacks are poor, inexistant and it’s a challenge to collect them; and your broker notes are not what they used to be. Of course, your expectations can be biased based on these factors, and furthermore, relationship are evolving with the pandemic. This ... 
Our webinar discussion is around how can data leverage your equity narrative? Understanding stakeholders' needs, and what are the key to successful communications. - Webinar - 50 minutes In our increasingly digital world, companies need to ensure they get the most relevant information if they want to communicate efficiently. With the evolution of capital markets and IR practices, comes the opportunity to harness the power of data, but how do you ensure you speak the same language as your stakeholders? Join us as Praexo, Euronext Corporate Services, and Emperor join forces to discuss the impact of digital on financial communications. Together, we will explore why and how companies can use digital content, design and functionality to further their corporate narrative, present their equity story, and provide investors with everything they need, and expect, to find online today. Key areas of discussion will include: Challenges and benefits from ... 
Estimated reading time - 5 minutes SPAC market As the SPAC market went from strength-to-strength last year and investors rode that momentum into early 2021, the market cooled dramatically in Q2 and Q3 of this year, as many SPACs still continue to search for their ideal target. Sponsor teams are now facing increased competition for target assets, risk-aware investors who are less willing to quickly deploy capital and increased regulatory oversight and competition from further afield as European listing venues embrace reforms to welcome SPACs. In this crowded market, what can SPAC sponsor teams do to differentiate themselves to investors? How can they respond to increased regulatory oversight and governance? And how can sponsor teams avoid the pitfalls that will lead to a large number of SPACs failing to consummate a business combination in the months ahead? SPAC slowdown facts According to CNBC, roughly 97% of the existing [300] pre-merger ... 
Estimated reading time - 4 minutes In the context of rapid process digitalisation, IROs now have access to simple, understandable and synthetic data which is geared towards informed decision making. But how can technology help you leverage your data to support your investor relations strategy? At Praexo, we apply tools such as Natural Language Processing (NLP) and data analytics on investor feedback, comments and meeting notes collected. Our purpose is to help IRO’s and C-suite management become more efficient and insightful during their investor engagement. This article intends to demystify the complexity of such data processing techniques and show how these can be applied to the financial industry and more specifically IR. What is NLP and how can it be implemented? NLP is a key component of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that automatically exploits text and speech. Relying on machine learning, it also analyses patterns in data to help improve ... 
Over the last few years, shareholder activism has been steadily increasing across Europe. While the movement has long gained momentum across the United States and the UK, a 2019 report showed that over 158 companies in Europe faced shareholder activism. This increased by 23% in 2020 heightened by the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic. As we head into a post-COVID world and European businesses begin to recover, experts suggest that the objectives of activist investors are likely to refocus with M&A being a clear and common area of focus. This is not to say that businesses should be on edge or overly concerned. After all, shareholder activism can oftentimes be a very positive force in allowing corporations to restructure and access untapped potential. It is instead to say that businesses should be prepared, as always, to focus on strengthening their investor partnerships in light of activist trends. In this article, we’re going to run through the key trends that have ... 
Praexo Technology Serving Issuers (“Praexo”), the Augmented Investor Relations solution.today announces the strengthening of its senior team with the appointment of Alexis Perrier as Chief Data Scientist. Alexis brings more than 20 years of experience in software engineering and machine learning acquired in both Europe and in the US. Prior to joining Praexo, Alexis worked for 10 years in Boston and Washington as lead data scientist in the higher education and healthcare sectors. Alexis has also accumulated broad experience working as an independent data science consultant for startups, academia and large companies. In parallel with his professional career, Alexis spent many years teaching data science at Ecole Polytechnique and is the author of a wide range of books and online courses on data science. Alexis also holds a Ph.D. from Telecom Paris in signal processing. Guillaume Moinet, CEO and founder of Praexo said, “Data is at the core of Praexo’s offering. Our ... 
SPAC issuance is no longer a novelty, having gained significant traction in the last few years, and with success stories such as Nikola and DraftKings, and high-profile SPAC sponsors like Bill Ackman, Chamath Palihapitiya and Michael Klein, SPACs are now firmly established as a formidable force and a tried and tested way of raising capital. After a record 2020, with almost 250 SPACs issued raising c. $83 billion in gross proceeds (according to ‘SPAC Insider’), 2021 looks set to make last year's figure look mediocre! In just the first month of this year, we’ve already seen 91 SPAC IPOs, raising over $25 billion in gross proceeds. While some are concerned of the emergence of a new bubble, the growing acceptance of SPAC as a vehicle for going public shows no signs of going away. There is no doubt that SPACs bring many advantages (transparency, quick-to-market, access to highprofile sponsors, etc..) and much-needed innovation to the capital raising process. We’re ... 
How can organisations tackle the ever-increasing importance of ESG? The role of digitalisation in improving governance. Over the last decade, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) topics have become a key concern for corporates and shareholders alike. Companies can no longer focus on operational performance alone. In order to strengthen investor relations and the consumer-facing brand, they must also pledge to adhere to the high ESG standards that shareholders, regulators and the general public have come to expect. ESG is nothing short of a critical factor in capital markets transactions and shareholder engagement. The absence of a clearly defined and comprehensive ESG framework can have a significantly negative impact on investor partnerships. Negative ESG perception can also impact on consumer and employee sentiment which, in turn, will hit operational performance and the bottom line. ESG strategy ... 
Though SPACs have been around for decades, this type of investment vehicle has recently earned new popularity as more private companies consider it for their exit strategy, in the context of an otherwise uncertain traditional IPO market. For many, SPACs offer the dual advantages of speed in execution and certainty of price. The increasing availability of funding sources has also helped to fuel this eye-popping surge in deals. In this article, we examine the challenges brought about by their astounding development and how Praexo can offer a powerful and cost-effective solution to optimise the SPAC process and follow-on transactions for the resulting newly-listed vehicle. What is behind the undeniable recent strong resurgence in US SPACs? SPACs have signalled a major comeback in 2020 and have gained significant traction in the US. We have witnessed over 200 SPAC IPOs in 2020 so far (As at 30/11/2020 (Silicon Valley Bank report)), totalling more than $70 billion raised ... 
Praexo SAS (“Praexo”), a financial technology firm offering digital capital raising solutions, today announces the further expansion of its senior team with the recent appointments of Laurent Lepinay as Head of Development and Wladimir Charvat as Head of Investor Engagement. We are delighted to announce the additions of both Laurent and Wlad to our team. Both Laurent and Wlad are financial industry veterans, and will play an integral role in supporting the continued development and rollout of our solutions to Corporates, Financial Intermediaries and Investors. Laurent joins the team from Natixis, where he was most recently a Managing Director and Head of International Equity Capital Markets, based in Paris. During his time at Natixis, Laurent mostly covered technology and growth situations throughout Western Europe and the Middle East, while also focusing on the Renewables and Real Estate sectors. Prior to this, Laurent spent most of his career as an Equity Derivatives ...