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Qualifying shareholders take up 68% as remainder stays with conditional placees
Underwriting left unused after deal is 33% oversubscribed
Shareholder-backed recapitalisation will help reduce debt and prepare assets for sale or listing
Placing and open offer follows recent acquisition of US annuity provider
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Union Bank of India has become the latest financial institution to use the qualified institutional placement route to raise capital, as the country’s banks head to the public market to plug their capital shortfalls. -
Underwriters of Banca Carige’s €500m rights issue were jubilant on Thursday, when the results of the deal showed it had attracted about €200m of demand in the open market — almost exactly the amount needed for the banks to avoid having to buy shares, and underlining that the Italian lender has been rescued in an orderly way by private sector investors, a first in recent Italian history, writes Jon Hay.
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Deutsche Bank shook up the senior ranks of its equity capital markets desk in Asia this week, removing the co-head structure and merging ECM with equity derivatives. The move comes amid a global reorganisation being rolled out from the bank’s headquarters that combines the equity and debt financing units with markets. John Loh reports.
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Banca Carige, the Genoese bank going through a lengthy restructuring process, moved a step further towards its de-risking target this week by selling a €1.2bn portfolio of non-performing loans.
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Samsung Heavy Industries Co’s shares were battered on Wednesday after the South Korean shipbuilder announced its second rights issue in as many years.
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DLF is preparing to tap equity investors for the first time in four years, as shares in the Indian real estate firm reach a level not seen since 2013.
