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Some 27m ordinary shares in German property firm Deutsche Annington were sold in an overnight block trade on Tuesday evening, as the company issued new shares alongside a stock sale by the firm’s largest shareholder. -
Investors have put in nearly €45bn of orders across three new additional tier one deals, in a week that has seen numerous records in the asset class broken. The activity was variously described by bankers as a “bonanza” with “no end in sight” for demand, causing both excitement and a tinge of bewilderment among market pros.
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s James Fleming has stepped down from his role as co-head of Asia Pacific global capital markets to take up a new post running equity capital markets in the UK.
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Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ inserted a fifth tranche to its blowout $4bn bond on Tuesday, adding a 30 year deal after US investors showed strong demand for the longer tenor.
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Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ launched a four - possibly three - tranche dollar offering on Tuesday afternoon, after bankers pushed back announcement of the deal from this morning to first gauge the performance of Asian markets amid the mounting political crisis.
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Beijing based iKang Healthcare Group filed for a $150m Nasdaq IPO on Monday as the list of Chinese companies looking to tap the US equities market for funding continues to grow.
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Peter Fung, managing director and senior equity derivatives trader, and Guillaume Kaminer, director and index flow trader at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong, have left the firm.
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China’s Haichang Holdings started receiving bids for its HK$2.68bn ($346m) Hong Kong IPO on February 28 as investors get the opportunity to invest in what is potentially the first Asian theme park to be listed.
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Solidium, the Finnish state investment fund, raised €800m through a combined ABB and exchangeable bond on Tuesday, allowing it to monetise some of its holding in financial group Sampo and reviving the structure after a run of similar deals in early 2012.
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Pohjola Bank assumed the sole responsibility for euro senior unsecured supply this week as FIG syndicates had their first glimpse this year of an increasingly frustrating trend — banks turning down excellent issuance conditions because of reduced funding needs.
