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India is on track for a record year of IPOs. Global tech giants continue to plough capital into a fast-growing consumer economy that is investing heavily in ensuring it’s a major player — along with the US and China — in an AI-first world
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  • Bond sales from Chinese issuers continued unabated on Thursday despite heavy supply in the first half of the week, with firms raising a combined $1.1bn from the debt market.
  • Formosa Plastics Corp is seeking a $2bn loan that bankers expect to be priced at a record low for borrowers from Taiwan, setting a benchmark for future transactions.
  • If UBS’s reported exploration of a merger with Credit Suisse actually leads to a tie-up at some point, it would create a formidable European investment bank.
  • The People’s Bank of China has started to allow banks seeking quotas to sell non-performing loan securitizations to shift from the old approval-based system to a registration-based system, onshore bankers told GlobalCapital China this week. The reform is set to speed up the pre-issuance phase and ease banks’ increasing pressure to dispose of bad loans.
  • Big Hit Entertainment, the label behind hugely popular K-pop boy band BTS, this week launched bookbuilding for an IPO that will be worth as much as W962.6bn ($818.4m). The company is the latest to ride a wave of demand sweeping the country’s stock market, causing an over-heating that is pushing prices dangerously high, said bankers. Jonathan Breen reports.
  • Industrial and Commercial Bank of China raised a smaller than planned $2.9bn from its additional tier one outing, buffeted by a surge in supply this week and a softer market backdrop. Alice Huang reports.
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