Examples of market soundings include situations in which the sell-side firm has been in discussions with an issuer about a potential transaction, and it has decided to gauge potential investor interest in order to determine the terms that will make up a transaction; where an issuer intends to announce a debt issuance or additional equity offering and key investors are contacted by a sell-side firm and given the full terms of the deal to obtain a financial commitment to participate in the transaction; or where the sell-side is seeking to sell a large amount of securities on behalf ...[+++] of an investor and seeks to gauge potential interest in those securities from other potential investors.

In a green paper on the capital markets union, published in February 2015, the Commission announced that it is going to re-examine the Prospectus Directive so that businesses, notably SMEs, can more easily raise capital and find investors abroad.

Traffickers approach women by advertising in newspapers for dancers, waitresses, club hostesses etc. or by direct recruitment in discotheques and bars.

-The announced launching of an initiative on the theme of "genomics", involving the launching of a small number of "integrated projects" and an additional effort in relation to research infrastructures, as well as activities in the fields of nanotechnologies and action to combat major illnesses, in an international context.

if the capital is spread in such a way that an enterprise can legitimately declare that it is not owned up to 25 % by one or more enterprises falling outside the definitions of an SME.

We had one small announcement saying that there would be additional funds for residential rehabilitation. However, I have to say that the Minister of Public Works, in making that announcement, really was just making a drop in the bucket in terms of the very critical situation that is facing us.