Morgan Stanley
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Unicaja Banco, the eighth largest bank in Spain by assets, has announced its intention to float on the Spanish stock exchanges, joining Ireland’s Allied Irish Banks in the pre-summer IPO market.
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MS, CS promotions in Oz — ABN Amro FIG hire — Natixis names new fixed income head — Pakistan returns to MSCI EM — Citi Korea boosts overseas reach with new desks -
Investors threw their weight behind two IPOs in Asia this week, with WuXi Biologics set to price at the top of expectations in Hong Kong and Singapore’s HRnetGroup getting covered across the range.
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WuXi Biologics is set to price its HK$3.9bn ($510.4m) IPO at the top of expectations following a blockbuster response from investors.
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Morgan Stanley has given two senior bankers in Australia new roles as head of ECM and head of fixed income capital markets, according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia.
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The drought of equity-linked bond issuance in EMEA has suddenly ended this week, with the launch of two deals in three days, by GN Store Nord, the Danish maker of hearing aids and audio devices, and Impala Platinum Holdings, the South African mining company.
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The stampede by corporate dollar issuers continued into a second consecutive week with Italian energy giant Enel printing the largest ever deal by an Italian corporate in the US investment grade market, and the second biggest Yankee deal of 2017.
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Higher beta corporate borrowers have shone this week to print eight bonds totalling €5bn, as investors were happy to fill their boots on cheaper paper after weeks of jumbo multi-tranche double-A rated bond issuance.
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China National Chemical Corp (ChemChina) defied any jitters caused by Moody’s downgrade of China’s sovereign on Wednesday, pricing a senior perpetual bond. The only dollar debt issuer to brave the market, the state-owned company’s strong following helped it price inside fair value, said bankers.
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Reliance Infrastructure has received the final go ahead from India’s market regulator to list its infrastructure investment fund, putting it on track to be the country’s third InvIT IPO.
