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Tech-focused investment company uses new mechanism to suspend trading as it offers shares as part of a $100m capital raising and investment programme
Books multiple times covered at £9.15 a share as commodities trader exits longstanding investment
UK public equity markets are easier to use after recent reforms, but now comes the hard task of stimulating activity
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  • The board of BCA Marketplace, a UK secondhand car dealer, announced on Wednesday that it would recommend a £1.9bn offer from TDR Capital to take the company private. The deal marks a coup for Jefferies, which is lead financial adviser to BCA, a role it won following the hire of a UK M&A team from HSBC last year led by Philip Noblet.
  • Voltalia, the French renewable power producer, launched a €376m rights issue on Monday to finance an increase in capacity, and won a new investor — the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. This is believed to be the first time the EBRD has bought a public equity in western Europe.
  • Equity-linked bankers said this week that European Central Bank president Mario Draghi has ended their slim hopes of a meaningful revival in convertible bond issuance this year, after he said he could cut interest rates and resume buying bonds if eurozone growth fails to pick up.
  • Singapore Exchange has unveiled a sweeping restructuring of its business as it seeks to grow across asset classes.
  • TCS Group Holding, the Russian financial services company owned by founder Oleg Tinkoff, has completed a $300m primary capital raise by selling Global Depository Receipts (GDRs) on the London Stock Exchange, gathering a strong following from investors for the deal.
  • The £540m IPO of Airtel Africa, the African division of India’s Bharti Airtel, has been priced at 80p, the bottom of the initial range, following a $100m anchor order from an existing investor, according to a source close to the transaction.
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