Hellenic Capital Market Commission

Latsco Hellenic Holdings (the family office of Marianna Latsi) and Orasis (the fund of George Elliott) will invest about 25 million euros in Dimand as cornerstone investors, acquiring a total of 8.92% of the company after the increase of share capital and while the company will now be listed on the Stock Exchange.

"We have been engaged with financial markets since 2007 when we were first listed in New York at the Nasdaq stock exchange. Since then we have paid more than $800 million in dividends to our investors" Evangelos Marinakis, the Founder and President of Capital Maritime & Trading Corp. said today, on the occasion of the listing of CPLP's bond on the Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX).

The Hellenic Capital Market Commission on Monday approved a bid by Czech-based Sazka Group to take full control of gaming firm OPAP.
Greece sold a 33 percent stake in OPAP to Emma Delta, currently owned by Sazka Group and Georgios Melissanidis, in 2013 for about 650 million euros as part of an international bailout.

A corruption prosecutor investigating the Novartis bribery case ordered on Tuesday the opening of ten bank accounts and disclosure of other assets belonging to the prominent politicians named in the case file.

The Athens Stock Exchange opened with a slight increase at 0.13% in the first few minutes on Tuesday before a 5% drop. The basic share price index later stabilized at 3.83% standing at 642.49 points at 11 a.m. and marking turnover at 16.26 mln euros.

The FTSE/ASE Large Index for blue chip and heavily traded stocks was down 5.43% and the FTSE/ASE Mid Cap index dropped by 2.36%.

The President of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission, Konstantinos Botopoulos told Reuters that the Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX) will open on Wednesday or Thursday after being shut down since June 29, when bank holidays and capital controls were imposed on Greek banks.

Many citizens lined up at banks again on Thursday, mainly the elderly hoping to get the next 120-euro installment from their pensions. the unemployed and pensioners receiving payments from abroad will also be able to withdraw as much as 120 euros.