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  • Mario Draghi, European Central Bank president, is known for playing with his bazooka. Right now, it feels more like his Badedas. The capital markets are swimming in froth, as surely as if Draghi had doused them with revitalising bath goo.
  • The long roster of IPOs in the market was tallied by one banker this week at “15 of a decent size and another six tiny ones”. Fortunately for the issuers, markets have been supportive and most are progressing satisfactorily.
  • Among the four smallish equity block trades launched in Europe on Tuesday afternoon, after a strong day for stocks, was an important trade in Romgaz, the Romanian state-controlled gas company.
  • Bookbuilding has begun for three Nordic IPOs, continuing a strong run from the region, which has produced 12 completed IPOs so far in 2016, out of 51 altogether in EMEA.
  • The European IPO market’s busy spring season received further encouragement this week, when its second and third major deals, for Forterra and Mediawan, were both completed — though Forterra’s was priced at the bottom of the range and edged down in trading.
  • The two IPOs under way in Prague are both garnering good interest in investor education, bankers said this week. Both companies seeking to float, GE Money Bank and EP Infrastructure, are solid, high quality assets, and the Czech economy is seen as stable and attractive.
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