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  • The most brutal equity market sell-off since the 2008 financial crisis rocked equity capital markets last week. But the primary market remains open, with investors open to block trades and the increased volatility benefitting convertible bonds, report Sam Kerr and Aidan Gregory.
  • SIG Combibloc, the Swiss food and beverage packaging company, took advantage of strong demand among ECM investors to price a Sfr539.6m ($564.1m) block trade, growing the deal in the process.
  • Equity capital markets bankers were celebrating a rare piece of good macroeconomic news on Wednesday morning: the surprise surge of former US vice-president Joe Biden in his bid to win the Democratic nomination to be presidential candidate in November’s election.
  • A €704m share block in German remote software company TeamViewer showed that the equity capital markets are still open for large opportunistic block trades, despite equity market fears over the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus.
  • Equity capital markets bankers are preparing block trades for launch this week, following a big bounce in stocks on Monday. Banks are working hard to try to bring the transactions to the market while they can, in what they sense might be a short issuance window.
  • Two block trades in Europe this week have shown that there is still a reasonable bid for some stocks, even during a global equity market meltdown, when many transactions have simply been called off.