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Barclays made a convincing start to its plan of reducing its stake in Barclays Africa on Wednesday night, with a successful block trade that netted $4bn of demand from what bankers on it said was a very high quality group of institutions.
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A consortium including Bob Diamond’s Atlas Merchant Capital is still pursuing a potential bid for Barclays Africa, even after Barclays sold a 12% stake in it in a block trade on Wednesday night, and a senior regulator said a private equity bid would not be welcome.
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Centrica, the UK energy supply, trading and production company, raised £700m of new capital on Thursday to support its credit ratings with an intraday placement, but that was less than the £750m it set out to raise, and its share price fell 9.8%.
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A HK$9.7bn ($1.25bn) sell-down in Chinese insurer PICC Property and Casualty Co last weekend has injected some welcome activity into Asia’s block market, which has seen limited business since the start of the year. The success of the deal in the primary and the secondary market is expected to inspire potential sellers to take action. Jonathan Breen reports. -
Wendel, the French investment company, made a bold move on Tuesday night to reduce its stake in Saint-Gobain, the glass and building materials group that is one of its main holdings.
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Barclays has this evening executed a R13bn ($900m) accelerated bookbuild in shares of Barclays Africa Group, its separately listed South African subsidiary, as the first stage in its already announced plan to divest the bank. The trade was covered in 35 minutes and multiple times oversubscribed.
