JP Morgan
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The State of North Rhine-Westphalia and Nederlandse Waterschapsbank will be the first two public sector borrowers to test investors’ appetite for euro deals in the long end of the curve following the summer break. -
Intesa Sanpaolo racked up plenty of orders behind an additional tier one (AT1) on Tuesday, showing that investors are hungry for new sources of yield. The deal ended a long pause for sales of subordinated debt in the euro market.
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The European Investment Bank will re-open the euro public sector bond new issue market for the last funding period of the year. Further issuers are expected to appear this week, trying to get in before the European Union’s giant borrowing programme begins.
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Barclays has hired Manuel Esteve from JP Morgan to lead its continental European equity capital markets business.
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Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer XPeng has hit the road with its $1.1bn New York Stock Exchange IPO. It is the latest in a building pipeline of US listings by Mainland-based companies that are undeterred by rising tensions between the two countries.
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A senior JP Morgan banker and head of its China securities joint venture has decided to leave his banking career for a job with a Hong Kong-listed Chinese drugmaker.
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Kingdee International Software Group has raised HK$2.38bn ($306.5m) from an overnight placement of new stock.
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Investors are still keen to buy bonds from Hong Kong corporations, with their interest reflected in the solid support for deals from Hongkong Electric Co and Nan Fung International Holdings on Thursday.
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Adyen’s senior managers, including its billionaire co-founders, have sold €693m of shares in the Dutch payments company after it declared strong first half results on Thursday.
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Casino developer Wynn Macau has made a rapid return to the bond market for an $850m deal, riding on an uplift in sentiment following the slow easing of travel restrictions to the Asian gambling hub.
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Shares in Cellink, the Swedish maker of 3D printing equipment for the life sciences industry, rose more than 4% on Thursday morning after the company completed a Skr946m ($109.2m) growth capital raising, amid strong investor appetite for exposure to the healthcare sector due to the global Covid-19 pandemic.
