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Follow-ons and Rights issues

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  • Equity capital markets came to life this week as several issuers across Europe announced strategic capital raising plans and block trades hit screens.
  • Marks & Spencer will turn to its shareholders to fund a £750m joint venture with Ocado Group in a move that would see the company metamorphose into a leading online food retailer.
  • Metro Bank has obtained a standby underwrite for a £350m ($464m) equity raise to be completed later this year, even as short sellers circle around the bank. The miscalculation in its risk-weighted assets (RWAs) announced last month, and an expected delay in getting permission for internal models to calculate those weightings, are both damaging for its capital ratios.
  • India’s largest telecommunications service provider Vodafone Idea has hired three banks to handle a rights issue that could raise up to Rp250bn ($3.5bn), according to a source close to the deal.
  • Philippine-based PH Resorts Group (PHR) has opened bookbuilding for a potential Ps10.4bn ($198.8m) follow-on offering of common shares.
  • Earnings growth in Europe appears to be slowing after a number of corporates missed estimates as they reported their latest numbers — increasing the chances that issuers will need to turn to equity markets to raise primary capital.