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Shipping company issues new shares as it raises stake in peer to roughly a fifth
Investors want more mid-cap deals and wider variety of sectors
Cornerstone investors commit roughly €170m as company aims to raise €300m
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Jerome Powell, a member of the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, said US financial regulators were preparing a new rule on compensation at financial institutions, which could include more deferral, delayed vesting and “the possibility of more robust forfeiture”.
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While financial assets are off to the races following Thursday’s announcement of €60bn a month in eurozone quantitative easing, the banking system still needs growth to take off. The bond buying programme could hurt European banks by squashing the yield curve, and leave investment banks becalmed by low rates for longer.
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Tele Columbus has priced its IPO in Frankfurt, the first of the year in Europe. The German cable company’s sale has been a success, and was priced at €10 a share, the midpoint of the €8-€12 range, and the top of the revised range.
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KKR, the US private equity firm, surprised the UK equity markets on Thursday morning as it announced its takeover of Thetrainline.com, the train ticketing website that had a fortnight ago expressed its intention to float in London. -
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has given its go-ahead to launch the country’s first real estate investment trust, with Arif Habib Dolmen Reit Management preparing an IPO for the second quarter of 2015. Interest is already strong and bankers are hoping Arif’s success will pave the way for more such listings to boost the Pakistan equity capital market.
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Thailand is shaping up to be one of southeast Asia’s busiest destinations for IPOs this year, with the pipeline of deals of above $100m building faster than in any of the country's peers in the region. A lot of the kudos for this goes to Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which is actively working towards boosting the equity capital market by expediting the listing process for issuers, writes John Loh.
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