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Africa’s largest IPO backed by Africa-focused Pan-African Refinery Investment after agreeing to $1bn underwriting programme
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India is trying to get its life insurers out from between a rock and a hard place by pushing ahead with new legislation to ease the way for their IPOs. The move has been a long time coming, but any marquee public offerings from the country’s life insurance firms are still at least a year away, writes John Loh. -
A subdued north Asia equity capital market, which has barely seen any activity since August, suddenly burst into life on September 16. American car rental company Hertz reduced its stake in China Auto Rental (CAR) while Taiwan’s TWi Pharmaceuticals sold GDRs on the same day to raise a combined $187m.
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The absence of sizeable IPOs on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for nearly two months is about to come to an end, with lingerie manufacturer Regina Miracle set to launch its $200m deal next week.
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Everything fell into place for Glencore’s $2.5bn capital raising on Tuesday evening, as the company managed to raise its target sum with an accelerated bookbuild as a 9.99% share of its equity, just below the trigger for a rights issue.
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Persian Gulf equity markets have so far failed to win a boost from last year’s inclusion of the United Arab Emirates and Qatar into the world’s main emerging market index, as well as the more recent opening up of the Saudi Exchange to foreign investors, market participants have said.
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When Glencore announced plans to raise $2.5bn of equity, all options were open, but one always looked the most likely: an overnight accelerated bookbuild.
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