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Agora is looking to raise up to $315m from its Nasdaq IPO, having begun bookbuilding for the deal.

Online casino gaming company DoubleDown Interactive has set the terms for its Nasdaq IPO, preparing the first South Korean listing on a US bourse in nearly a decade.

High grade companies crammed more than $35bn of bonds into the dollar market in two days after the US Federal Reserve pulled the trigger on its corporate bond buying programme on Monday.

‘Angrynomics’, a well-timed book on anger and how it relates to politics, economics and finance by Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth, is published this week. GlobalCapital spoke to Lonergan to discuss its meaning.

Ebang International Holdings, a Chinese cryptocurrency mining hardware maker, has kicked off its IPO of up to $125.6m on Nasdaq in the US.

Fast food restaurant franchiser Yum China Holdings is in the process of mandating banks for a secondary listing in Hong Kong, according to sources familiar with the matter.

China’s Genetron Holdings has launched bookbuilding for its Nasdaq listing, according to a source familiar with the matter.

In mid-May GlobalCapital hosted a specially convened panel of investment bankers, investors and a market infrastructure provider to discuss how capital markets have reacted to the coronavirus crisis and how they might play a role in the recovery of the global economy. The discussion, which took place remotely over Zoom, was the opening panel discussion of the Global Borrowers & Investors Forum, which this year is being brought to you in virtual form via a special digital publication on our website.

Generals, and financial regulators, are always fighting the last war. So it proved when the coronavirus slammed into international markets in mid-March. Many of the tools developed in the 2008 financial crisis were deployed to great effect by central banks. The corners of the financial markets that propagated weakness in 2008 passed the test of 2020. But new risks were thrown up, forcing a new round of improvisation. What lessons will be drawn from the Covid-19 crisis?

Hertz, the US car hire company in Chapter 11 protection, is to offer up to $500m of new stock after receiving approval last week from a bankruptcy court to raise equity, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday.

Burning Rock Biotech, a Chinese cancer treatment firm, raised $222.8m from its US listing last Friday. The issuer's stock soared nearly 50% on its debut, after the IPO was priced above the initial guidance.

Bankers hope they can bring several European IPOs to market in the autumn, and that the recent success of a few issuers and generally supportive secondary markets will allow for a busy end to the year. However, chaotic politics in the US are causing concern and bankers are becoming wary of doing deals too close to November's presidential election.