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Eight banks provided loan facility to company
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Siemens Healthineers, the German healthcare tech company, has sold €2.73bn of new stock in the largest block trade 2020 has seen so far to partly finance its $16.4bn acquisition of US cancer care solutions firm Varian. The consensus among ECM bankers is that it will be vital to execute transactions during the next few weeks, before a tempestuous US election and possible rises in Covid-19 cases spoil the party, write Sam Kerr and Aidan Gregory. -
The top investment banks will achieve substantially higher returns on equity this year, predicts analytics firm Coalition, after revenues in fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) soared in the first half of the year.
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WuXi Biologics Holdings has raised HK$6.1bn ($787.5m) after selling a block of shares in WuXi Biologics (Cayman), the fourth time it has trimmed its position in the company this year.
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City workers used to go to ubiquitous sandwich chain Pret A Manger because it was close to the office. Now, the UK government wants us to go to our offices because they’re near a Pret. Yes, the City’s retail and commercial property economies are in trouble, but cajoling people back to the office is not the answer.
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has said that making sure staff could work remotely hindered the ability of financial firms to work on regulatory and IT projects, in a final report calling for the implementation of a set of rules on settlement discipline — including on mandatory buy-ins — to be delayed until 2022.
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Beijing-headquartered Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has played a pre-eminent role in tackling Covid-19 this year, mainly by offering financial support to countries like Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Vietnam to combat the impact of the pandemic. But its work is not nearly over, as second and third waves of the coronavirus hit countries around the world.
