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Europe’s self-proclaimed investment banking champions are playing to their strengths, but remain far behind US peers
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Market participants will embark in the coming weeks on the difficult task of working out how to use the European Union’s sustainable finance Taxonomy, after the first criteria were published this week. In doing so, they will be conscious that the smooth tide of green finance is now breaking against the hard reality of power politics and resistance by fossil fuel industries — a clash that is rocking the Taxonomy’s credibility, writes Jon Hay. -
Equity investors continued to show strong demand for follow-on primary deals this week with high take-ups in capital raises for Spain’s Cellnex and UK food and beverage outlet operator SSP.
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With little end in sight to the worst crisis that the airline industry has faced since 9/11, Europe’s stricken carriers risk becoming like the continent’s banks after the financial crisis, when they went through round after round of equity capital raising to shore up their strained balance sheets.
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The IPO of Allfunds was covered well in excess of the deal size on Thursday morning, proving that some deals in the European IPO market still attract strong demand.
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Meituan, a Chinese food delivery company, raised $10bn this week from a combined equity placement and convertible bond issue. Investors flocked to the deal for the investment grade rating and the offer of a highly liquid and volatile stock. Jonathan Breen reports.
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China Gas Holdings fell by more than 11% on Thursday after it raised HK$11.66bn ($1.5bn) from the sale of new shares through a top-up placement.
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