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Nomura has hired three managing directors within its emerging markets business — two from Barclays and one from Jefferies.

Veritas Technologies, the Californian data storage company, has increased its high yield bond issue to make up for a disappointing loan financing. But initial price talk has yet to emerge.

Shares in Softcat, the UK IT services and solutions provider, have risen 23% since the company's £153.4m IPO, as an initial 20% pop solidified into steady gains.

McCarthy & Stone, the UK’s leading builder of retirement homes for sale, completed its IPO on Friday November 6, in a £336m deal that gave it an initial market capitalisation of £967m.

Bank of Georgia completed the initial public offering of its healthcare subsidiary on Monday, as it successfully priced the deal, although at a price much below what it had hoped for.

The IPO of Softcat, the UK IT infrastructure and services provider, is “oversubscribed and in good shape”, according to a banker on the deal. The London flotation was widely tipped to value the firm at £500m.

McCarthy & Stone, the UK’s leading builder of retirement homes for sale, closed the book for its London IPO at 1pm on Thursday, saying orders below 180p a share were expected to miss.

Veritas, the Californian data management company, has become the first US borrower to roadshow for a euro high yield bond in the second half of this year — and bankers say it will soon have company.

Dometic, the Swedish manufacturer of refrigerators and cookers for camper vans, said on Monday that it aimed to raise Skr4.6bn ($540m) of primary proceeds from an initial public offering in Stockholm.

Georgia Healthcare Group set on Monday morning the price range of its planned initial public offering, as it seeks to raise between $100m and $150m on the London Stock Exchange.

Equity block trade activity has picked up this week, after a six day lull, with a rash of trades helped by a stable stockmarket. On Thursday night, two trades were launched, after a buoyant afternoon for stocks since Mario Draghi, European Central Bank president, raised hopes of further monetary easing at a press conference.

Softcat, a UK IT infrastructure and services provider, on Monday started pre-marketing for an IPO on the London Stock Exchange, widely tipped to value the firm at around £500m.