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  • Chinese pet-focused e-commerce site Boqii Holding filed its listing documents for a US IPO on Tuesday, but Citigroup, one of the original lead banks on the deal, is now no longer in the syndicate.
  • Chindata Group Holdings, iHuman and Yalla Group filed IPO paperwork with the US regulator on Tuesday as they prepare to float on New York stock exchanges.
  • Equity investors should be nervous about US tech valuations as the fabled FAANG (named for Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google) stocks look extremely expensive after reaping in the cash during the equity rally that followed the initial Covid-19 sell-off. With valuations at near-preposterous levels and the macro-economic environment worsening with rising Covid-19 cases and a bitter election around the corner, market moves down last week could be a sign of worrying times ahead.
  • Electricité de France has reopened the equity-linked bond new issue market in EMEA with a huge €2.4bn green convertible bond, alongside a €2.1bn hybrid capital issue.
  • Barclays has appointed Todd Sandoz and Paul Leech as permanent co-heads of global equities.
  • The tension between the EU and UK over Brexit ratcheted up this week, with the prospect of the UK reneging on the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement rearing up. Rising political tension could now boil over into talks on financial services.
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