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  • After a challenging first half, equity capital markets bankers in Asia can breathe a little easier knowing that momentum from the third quarter will carry on into a busy end to the year. But with macro headwinds such as the US elections looming over markets, issuers will have to remain on their toes, writes John Loh.
  • For the nine months through September, Morgan Stanley topped the Asia ex-Japan ex-onshore China ECM bookrunning league table with $9.41bn in deals, according to Dealogic. It was also the only bank with double-digit market share.
  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s head of southeast Asia equity capital markets has left the firm, amid a wider reshuffle of its Asian investment banking business that resulted in a number of departures.
  • Steinhoff, the South African retail group, has completed a €2.45bn capital increase supported by one of South Africa’s richest men, Christoffel Wiese, and the Public Investment corp, of which €556m was raised through an accelerated bookbuild which ended up being nearly four times oversubscribed.
  • Phoenix Group Holdings, the UK life insurer and asset manager, will carry out a £735m rights issue to partly finance its takeover of Abbey Life, which it announced on Wednesday morning, causing its share price to rise by 3.6%.
  • The cheerful and businesslike mood in European equity capital markets, despite clear risks of volatility in the offing, was highlighted again today by the launch of a €2.5bn capital raising by Steinhoff, the South African retail group.