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UK billionaire Peter Hargreaves has sold £550m of stock in Hargreaves Lansdown, the UK financial services company he co-founded, via a block trade that was increased to satisfy a huge demand. -
EMEA equity capital markets roared back into life this week, as fears over a potential coronavirus pandemic abated to allow the blocks market to reopen in size. A huge slug of supply on Monday evening that traded up left investors hungry for more, report Sam Kerr and Aidan Gregory.
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Shares in UniCredit, Italy’s largest bank by assets, closed 8.1% higher on Thursday after the bank cut its stake in Turkey’s Yapi Kredi, while announcing a dividend increase and a share buy-back.
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Investors warmly welcomed a TL2.6bn ($440m) block trade in Turkish bank Yapi Kredi on Wednesday night. But market participants are yet to be convinced that the country’s equity capital markets are fully reopened.
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Atos has sold most of its remaining shares in Wordline, the French payments company, via an accelerated bookbuild.
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Three substantial block trades re-opened the EMEA blocks market with a bang on Monday. The deals in French payments company Worldline, London-listed airline Wizz Air and Swiss testing laboratories company SGS totalled about $4.7bn equivalent and showed that equity capital markets have largely recovered from fears over the spread of coronavirus, which weighed on issuance volumes last week.
