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The biggest investment banks are enjoying strong trading revenues from the market moves related to the coronavirus pandemic, alleviating a freeze in M&A and underwriting activity. The banks appear well-placed to deal with corporate drawdowns, although there is some debate around wider liquidity profiles. -
Equity bankers are working with corporates on potential rights issues to shore-up balance sheets given the huge economic disruption caused by the coronavirus in Europe. But with volatility sky-high, even optimistic bankers are wary of bringing deals to market, while other ECM deals like block trades, convertibles and IPOs are no-go areas for the foreseeable future.
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Firms across Europe are clamouring for crisis funding but while debt advisory bankers have joined the frontline in finding solutions some admit they may struggle to cope with the sheer scale of the challenge, writes David Rothnie.
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Bankers in Paris are adjusting to a new life of lockdown following president Emmanuel Macron’s declaration of war against Covid-19 on Monday, which has led to the toughest restrictions being imposed on daily life in France since the Second World War.
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European governments are scrambling to combat the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on their populations and their economies. Although much of the intervention has been through fiscal policy and debt markets, countries are investigating taking companies back into public ownership to prop them up.
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Asia’s stock markets dived on Thursday as investors opted to hoard cash and global safe havens roiled with coronavirus-driven volatility. Amid the turmoil, however, equity capital markets bankers are trying to look ahead and are preparing for deals in the second half of the year. Jonathan Breen reports.
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