Morgan Stanley

China Merchants Securities Co has kicked off bookbuilding for a HK$11.4bn ($1.5bn) IPO, over half of which has been propped up with cornerstone investors. Meanwhile, peer-to-peer lender Lufax has hired a quartet to lead its $5bn float.

The blaze of equity block trades on Thursday night was well received, with important deals completed for CaixaBank and in shares of Veolia Environnement and Scout24.

CaixaBank, the Barcelona-based retail bank, has launched a €1.3bn accelerated bookbuild this evening to sell a 9.9% stake in itself, as part of its move to take over Banco BPI of Portugal. The deal is one of four block trades in the European market this evening.

French non-performing loan servicing firm MCS Groupe printed its €200m five year floating rate note at 5.75% over Euribor on Wednesday. The deal received a boost in trading on Thursday as the market welcomed the Fed’s decision to hold interest rates.

US car rental provider Avis this week followed rival Hertz to the euro market and sold a €300m bond, increasing the deal from its initially marketed size.

Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC) made waves in the market this week, bringing its HK$57.6bn ($7.4bn) IPO in Hong Kong to a close as a third of investors were zeroed from the world’s biggest float in two years.

Nets, the largest digital payments processor in the Nordic region, will close the books for its Dkr10.4bn to Dkr16.8bn ($1.6bn-$2.5bn) IPO two working days early after receiving strong demand.

Postal Savings Bank of China has raised HK$57.6bn ($7.4bn) from its Hong Kong IPO after pricing the shares off the bottom of the range, with allocations dragging late into Wednesday evening.

Several European IPOs are progressing through bookbuilding this week, as issuers take advantage of a window of calm before the uncertainty of the US election in just over seven weeks time.

Postal Savings Bank of China has narrowed the price range on its Hong Kong IPO to the bottom half of guidance, and is set to raise up to HK$58.8bn ($7.6bn) in the world’s biggest listing in two years.

Takeaway.com, the Dutch online fast food delivery service, has opened the books for its €350m IPO, with a price range that could value the company at up to €1.1bn.

Honma Golf has started taking orders for its HK$1.5bn ($193.3m) listing, while China Merchants Securities Co is set to kick off its IPO next week.