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  • Morgan Stanley was sole bookrunner on two overnight sell-downs in Asia this week. One transaction was for its Taiwanese private equity arm in shares of CTBC Financial Holdings.
  • Hong Kong’s stock market is in the grip of another euphoria-driven rally, with the Hang Seng Index smashing record after record this week. As Chinese investors pile into equities, parallels are being drawn to 2015, when a similar China-led bubble ended in tears. But this time is different, say market watchers. John Loh reports.
  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Akram Zaman is returning to the US after a three year stint in Asia to head the equity syndicate desk in New York, according to sources.
  • KKR launched an accelerated bookbuild on Wednesday to sell its remaining stake in Pets at Home, the UK retailer. The trade priced at 174p, a 5.9% discount.
  • Emerging markets are coming to the fore in equity capital markets this year, fulfilling predictions of a good year for ECM issuance from more challenging markets.
  • Morgan Stanley Formosa Holdings pulled off a NT$5.8bn ($199.3m) block trade in CTBC Financial Holdings on Monday — Taiwan’s largest accelerated share sale in four years, according to a source close to the deal.