Brexit is having a direct impact on London’s attractiveness as a global hub for financial transactions. The latest analysis by the City of London Corporation concludes that the London Stock Exchange now has to share its status as investors’ undisputed favourite with the New York Stock Exchange. At the same time, other trading venues such as Singapore, Paris or Frankfurt have gained ground as well. 

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DVFA survey underpins growing role of ChatGPT for German IR professionals.

ChatGPT, developed by the US company OpenAI and financed by Microsoft, can respond to any user input in chat style. Since November 2022, the chatbot has been publicly accessible as a prototype of a text-based dialogue system. 

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Editorial work is one of the areas of IR in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) already facilitates routine activities. Tools such as ChatGPT from OpenAI or Claude from Anthropic are used to draw up texts. Quarterly and annual reports are one relevant area. Passages about business figures and the company balance sheet are usually only reformulations of other text passages. Other types of text, such as internal and external reports, can also be automated. However, AI has long been a help when it comes to illustrating presentations.

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The loud voices in the ESG universe that want to give themselves a green image with misleading slogans and empty promises (known as “greenwashing”) have long been an integral part of all sustainability debates. Far less well-known is the exact opposite, known as “green hushing”. This term refers to all measures taken by companies to hide their climate strategies.

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Companies from the USA, Canada, Great Britain and Australia dominate the market.

Foreign equities are trendy on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. If you look at the figures for the values traded in Frankfurt, this is astonishing: over 13,000 companies from abroad are tradable in Frankfurt. In contrast, there are just under 700 German companies that can be traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

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Social media such as LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok have not only become a central component in everyday communication, but have also long since arrived in IR work. A 2020 study by US business consultancy Greenwich Associates found that nearly 80 percent of all institutional investors use social media as part of their regular daily routine. Around 30 percent of respondents said that information received via social media has a direct impact on their investment decisions or recommendations.

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Micro and small-cap companies are the biggest players on the capital market. At least in terms of numbers. And: many fund managers believe they will perform better after the crisis. Nevertheless: The IR of micro and small caps must pay much more attention to the capital market than their mid and large cap competitors.  

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The customer journey is well understood by marketing experts today. It is understood as a journey of the customer to the product / service of the company. The journey leads along direct contact points such as advertisements, commercials and websites, but also indirect contact points such as third party opinions in rating portals, user forums, blogs, etc. An in-depth understanding of the entire customer journey is a basic requirement for a customer-oriented marketing and sales approach.

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Mr. Musc from Tesla cost his tweets a few million. And the chairmanship of the board. This was triggered by, among other things, a withdrawal of Tesla from the stock market, hinted at by Musk. Other companies had to pay fines because they had passed on insider information to a small circle of analysts during an analyst conference. This cost some IROs their jobs. The reason: They had not sufficiently sensitized the CEOs to this issue.

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Crises in IR always come when they are least useful. And then also mostly unexpectedly and suddenly. As is currently the case due to Corona. Or they were already looming over a longer period of time, but there was simply not enough time to prepare sufficiently for the looming crisis. Because annual general meetings, analysts’ conferences, annual reports, road shows, investor presentations, activist shareholders, investor targeting, quarterly and half-yearly figures, requirements of sustainability investors…

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