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  • The IPO of Française des Jeux, the French gaming company that runs the national lottery, has been well received during its first week of marketing and was covered on the full size of the deal within three hours of launch last week. Demand continued to grow throughout this week with retail demand driving momentum.
  • Credit Suisse has lost the talisman of its investment banking and capital markets (IBCM) division, James 'Jim' Amine, but says the unit is "absolutely core", writes David Rothnie.
  • Shares in CTS Eventim, the German ticketing and live events company, plunged more than 8% on Thursday after Klaus-Peter Schulenberg, its billionaire founder and CEO, sold €218.4m of stock.
  • The European equity block trades market has caught fire. Banks have shown an appetite for risk more typical of the beginning of a year than the end of it, in an effort to finish 2019 with a flourish. Investors have welcomed the trades but there is a fear that at some point, a bank will push too far, writes Sam Kerr.
  • French insurance brokerage April, a CVC portfolio company, has returned to the leveraged loan market to refinance the acquisition debt it raised in April, taking advantage of squeezed credit spreads and the expiry of its six month call protection.
  • Alibaba Group Holding has kicked off its up to $13.4bn Hong Kong IPO, set to be the largest listing on the bourse for nearly a decade. Bankers are confident the deal will be a success, but they are navigating challenging times in the city’s stock market, which plunged this week as violence during protests escalated. Jonathan Breen reports.
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