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Convertible bond market participants are expecting a busy September for new issuance, including a potential resurgence of distressed deals if an economic recovery from the pandemic and associated lockdowns fails to materialise. -
Ke Holdings sealed a $2.12bn IPO on the New York Stock Exchange this week, the largest US listing by a Chinese firm in more than two years, defying the shock caused by US sanctions against one of its largest shareholders, Tencent Holdings. Jonathan Breen reports.
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Many saw the US Federal Reserve’s decision to lend hundreds of billions of dollars to certain central banks at the height of the coronavirus crisis as pivotal in preventing further calamity in global markets. Brad Setser, senior fellow for international economics at the Council of Foreign Relations, gives a great deal of credit to the Fed for its forceful intervention. But if markets begin to see the US central bank as a global lender of last resort, there may be a greater risk of imprudent behaviour and more political tumult in the US.
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Private equity firms EQT Partners and Vaaka Partners have offloaded €118.5m of stock in Musti Group, the Finland-based pet store, in an otherwise barren week for block trades in EMEA.
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European equity capital markets are gearing up for a wave of autumn IPOs and are worrying that they will struggle for investor attention. But one of the few good things to have emerged from the coronavirus pandemic — the use of technology to accelerate deal calendars — should alleviate fears of congestion.
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OneConnect Financial Technology Co, a Chinese technology-as-a-service platform, raised $324m this week from a larger than expected follow-on offering of its US-listed stock.
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