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  • Shares in Marel, the Icelandic meat processing machinery maker, rose by more than 8% on its first morning of trading in Amsterdam after a popular IPO which attracted a broad range of investors, including environmental, social and governance funds.
  • Swiss Re, the Swiss reinsurance business, has come to market with the IPO of its UK life insurance business ReAssure, potentially one of the largest London IPOs of the year if it successfully completed.
  • The Federal Reserve is losing confidence in the US economy, global economic growth is flagging and Treasury yields are staggeringly low. Emerging market assets, meanwhile, are full of beans, as low rates and healthy risk appetite provide a magic combination for EM companies looking to raise capital. But the Fed is worried for a reason: there’s trouble ahead, write Lewis McLellan and Sam Kerr.
  • Kepler Cheuvreux has become the go-to option for European banks looking to breathe life into failing their equity capital markets businesses. David Rothnie reports.
  • Traton, Volkswagen’s heavy trucks division, is back on the market. The German auto giant relaunched the IPO after it was postponed in March owing to market volatility caused by trade tensions between the US and China. The deal is a key event for the equity capital markets in what has been a tricky year. It is important for those involved and for the wider market that it goes well. Yet conditions are not much better now, particularly for auto stocks, raising questions among investors about Traton’s timing, writes Aidan Gregory.
  • Investment firm Triton Partners has sold the remainder of its shares in in Befesa, the German metal recycling firm, in a popular €216m block trade.
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