GLOBALCAPITAL INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, a company

incorporated in England and Wales (company number 15236213),

having its registered office at 4 Bouverie Street, London, UK, EC4Y 8AX

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  • The huge swathe of dividend cuts UK companies have made because of lockdown has created an opportunity, to issue equity capital, for those that have not stopped returning money to their owners.
  • Equity capital markets are preparing for a wave of rights issues this autumn as companies raise capital to withstand a prolonged Covid-19 pandemic. One of the most talked about is a rights issue for IAG, the airline holding company that owns British Airways, with market participants praying that sentiment holds up throughout August enough to allow the deal to succeed in September.
  • Institutional investors holding Hammerson’s £689m ($900.27m) of private placements (PPs) are to be offered a pre-payment option first after the UK property company’s intended rights issue, according to a prospectus on the upcoming trade. Unlike the UK property company’s bondholders and bank lenders, during their coronavirus amendment process, PP investors negotiated an offer of pre-payment at par of 30% of any proceeds of capital raises or disposals.
  • ICICI Bank has closed its up to Rp150bn ($2bn) qualified institutional placement, according to a source close to the deal.
  • China Education Group Holding has raised HK$2bn ($260m) after boosting the size of a top-up share placement.
  • US-listed OneConnect Financial Technology Co, a Chinese company whose stock price has doubled this year, is tapping equity investors for new funds.