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  • It has been the year where Chinese banks went from challenger to champion in Asian investment banking. Growing almost as fast have been the complaints from international rivals. Bankers at global firms may not like the methods but Chinese banks are liquid and they are here to stay: it’s time to adapt.
  • The ferocious onslaught of block issuance is continuing tonight, with four vendors out in the market, led by the Dutch government, which has begun the next phase of privatising ABN Amro by selling 65m shares, a 7% stake, worth €1.36bn.
  • Bayer successfully pulled off what was arguably this year’s biggest European ECM deal on Tuesday night, with a €4bn mandatory convertible and €1.5bn delta equity placement. But although both were fully sold and have traded stably, a good number of deal-playing investors are still putting in small orders.
  • Civitas Social Housing, the UK real estate investment trust, has completed its IPO on the London Stock Exchange, having offered investors the first ever pure play on a social housing Reit.
  • Bayer, the German life sciences group, picked Tuesday night to launch the first part of its $19bn equity financing for its $66bn takeover of Monsanto. Bayer's deal comes as equity markets are revitalised by the new conviction that Western policy is shifting to reflation.
  • Vodafone will not launch an IPO for its India business before March, even as the UK telecommunications giant wrote down the value of its India arm by €5bn ($5.4bn) following mounting domestic competition.
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