Posts tagged: Fingerprint Cards
Thursday, 23 November 2017, 11:14 am
It's good to see the Nordic press finally follow up on Betaville's scoops about Beijing Watertek weighing a bid for Fingerprint Cards.
As usual, Betaville took a fair amount of stick after this website revealed last year that China's Beijing Watertek was preparing a takeover bid for Sweden's Fingerprint Cards, which specialises in biometrics. Here is a link to the original piece:..
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Thursday, 20 April 2017, 7:26 pm
Ping! A friendly stockbroker emails over a (translated) quote in Direkt magazine from Johan Carlstrom, the founder and main shareholder of Fingerprint Cards, the biometric technology company.
Apparently, Carlstrom told Direckt that: "There has never been a serious, fully financed bid on the company. However, on a few occasions I have received requests to sell my A and B shares. So far, I have chosen not to do that." Here is the link to the piece:..
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Saturday, 25 March 2017, 1:27 pm
Little old Betaville took a fair amount of stick last week after Fingerprint Cards, the Swedish biometric sensors company, unvelied a stinker of a profit warning. Here is an FT piece on last week's warning.
https://www.ft.com/content/db27f510-0e2d-11e7-a88c-50ba212dce4d..
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Monday, 26 September 2016, 5:11 pm
It's a Monday, so here is a link to today's session on Tip TV with a rather chirpy Zak Mir.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NQMHGpooPM..
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Wednesday, 21 September 2016, 5:11 pm
Another day, another attempt by a Chinese company to buy a western business. This time the potential target is Fingerprint Cards, the Swedish biometric technology business.
According to three sources familiar with the situation, a Chinese company approached Fingerprint Cards this summer about a potential takeover deal that is likely to value the Gothenburg-based business at well over its current market capitalisation of SEK 33 billion (£3 billion)...
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