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British life insurer and asset manager Prudential Corp Holdings is offloading a chunk of shares in its Indian joint venture ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Co and is looking to bag at least Rp11.2bn ($162.6m).

Nasdaq-listed video streaming platform iQiyi has returned for a second time to the equity-linked market, having launched a one-day bookbuild on Tuesday for a convertible bond that could reach $1.05bn.

Investors looking at the multi-billion euro listing of Italian payments company Nexi are largely comfortable with the country’s political environment, focusing more on whether its private equity sellers will seek too high a price.

Spanish telecommunications company Cellnex’s €1.2bn rights issue has finished more than 16 times covered after its shareholders bought into its growth plans.

Barclays is under pressure from activist investor Edward Bramson to slim down its investment bank. But among top European IBs, it made the second highest amount of revenue in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in 2018, according to new research. The results were less promising for Deutsche Bank, however.

Middle-Eastern payments company Network International is getting plenty of traction in pre-marketing for its IPO on the London Stock Exchange and has garnered interest from investors interested in anchoring the transaction, according to sources close to the IPO.

The Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank talks have given Europe’s FIG bankers an unexpected source of cheer, writes David Rothnie.

Blackstone-backed Embassy Office Parks Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) has sealed the book for its Rp47.6bn ($694.3m) IPO well oversubscribed.

Vakifbank will be the next borrower to join the growing list of Turkish credits returning to the bond market after the nation’s currency crisis in 2018.

GlobalCapital announced the winners of its 2018 Equity Capital Markets Awards at our annual Awards dinner in London on Tuesday night. Adyen, Knorr-Bremse, Netcompany and Neoen were among the deals that won prizes as company founders, CFOs and senior managers mingled with leading investment bankers.

Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Nordea launched a refinancing deal for specialty chemicals firm Perstorp Holding, a Swedish-headquartered PAI Partners and Landmark Partners portfolio company.

Bank of America and Goldman Sachs have launched the loan backing Triton Partners and Luxinva's buyout of IFCO Systems, the Germany-based reusable plastics business of Australia’s Brambles.