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Streamlining of IPO process just two months after consultation closed as the market prepares for post-summer IPO activity
Sale comes after the expiry last month of a pre-emptive acquisition rights agreement between the main family holding companies
Placing and open offer follows recent acquisition of US annuity provider
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Commerzbank’s future strategy is up in the air after it was announced that its chief executive and chairman would be leaving after its “5.0” strategy received a poor welcome. -
Equity investors are turning their focus away from rescue capital raises and towards other long-term priorities after the initial shock of the Covid-19 outbreak. At the beginning of the year, increased investor scrutiny of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors was on the tip of all tongues in Europe’s equity capital markets, and it is now featuring heavily in conversations again.
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UK chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak announced a stimulus package totalling up to £30bn on Wednesday, driving a wedge between some bankers and investors about how big an impact the measures will have on the capital markets.
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Bohai Bank wrapped up a billion-dollar-plus Hong Kong IPO this week. The issuer, one of China’s last remaining joint-stock commercial banks to go public, rode the tail end of a hot period for the city’s IPO market. Jonathan Breen reports.
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Hansa Biopharma, the Swedish pharmaceuticals company, raised Skr1.1bn ($121m) through a sale of new shares on Wednesday evening to fund the launch of a new drug for patients undergoing kidney transplants.
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Property managers Zhenro Services Group and Greentown Management, along with developer Ganglong China, all priced IPOs this week, albeit with different responses from the market.
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