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Greta Thunberg is right
“How dare you?” This September at the UN Climate Action Summit, the young, Swedish Greta Thunberg reminded1 world leaders they are not doing enough regarding climate change. M&A activity in renewable energy reflects that inactivity. 2018 was the only year with increased interest in high-volume renewable targeted M&A, with total volume soaring to a record-high […]
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Loans Highlights: First 9 Months 2019
Global Outlook: First 9 Months Market Drivers Sluggish economic growth driven by trade wars and political uncertainty has marred 2019. Both the syndicated loans market and the world economic output (WEO) echoed the same story. Whilst WEO fell to 3.2, its lowest since 2017 (3.5) according to the IMF, the first nine months (9M) of 2019 […]
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DCM Highlights: First 9 Months 2019
Bond sales grow amidst low rates Debt markets are holding their ground this year despite increasing pressures affecting bond sales. Global issuance totaled $5.43tr during the first nine months of 2019, the second highest of the past ten years after 2017 ($5.56tr). The current volume slightly edges those obtained in 2018 ($5.35tr) and 2016 ($5.43tr), […]
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Dealogic Completes the Acquisition of Selerity
Dealogic announced today that it has acquired Selerity, a content analytics company. NEW YORK (PRWEB) SEPTEMBER 25, 2019 Dealogic announced today that it has acquired Selerity, a content analytics company. Financial terms were not disclosed. Headquartered in New York and Chicago, Selerity is a leading provider of unstructured data solutions that power automation for the world’s […]
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ECM Highlights: First 9 Months 2019
Americas: US Companies Rush to Convertibles As political uncertainty continues in the US, the Federal Reserve has cut interest rates by 0.5%, and consequently investors and companies have become more pessimistic about the market which has resulted in a rising fear of a potential recession. As a result, a lot of companies have issued convertible […]
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M&A Highlights: First 9 Months 2019
Global M&A driven by US megadeals Global M&A volume continued the decreasing trend this year with $3.05tn during F9M 2019 among 25,754 deals, representing a 5.6% decrease compared to $3.23tn in the same period in 2018. APAC and EMEA targeted regions showed a significant drop in volume, with APAC generating $599.6bn in volume during F9M […]
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A STAR is Born: China New Listings Re-Emerge
In just the first two weeks of July 2019, 28 companies have raised $5.5bn via new listings in China, already surpassing the full June numbers with 2x the activity and 1.6x the volume. Approximately 95% of the listing volume in these 2 weeks has been from companies that applied to list on the new Science […]
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Loans Highlights: H1 2019
Global loans on a go slow An unstable economic and political climate driven by US-China trade war jitters, Brexit and Iran, have impacted the loans market. Global syndicated loans volume which totalled $2.09tr via 4,036 deals is at its lowest since H1 2012 and down by 31% on H1 2018. Year on year the EMEA […]
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DCM Highlights: H1 2019
Bond sales continue to slow down Global bond sales continue to show a modest performance in 2019. The first half of the year has closed with a year-on-year decline in issuance, reaching $3.63tr worth of bonds sold, a 4% lower than the $3.77bn distributed in the first half of 2018. Deal activity has also slumped, […]
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ECM Highlights: H1 2019
Global Roundup Global ECM issuance in Q2 2019 rebounded to its highest quarterly level over the last four quarters with ECM volume of $190.4bn up 40%, and deal count of 1,416 up 32% from Q1 2019. Q2 2018 is the last quarter to record higher totals for both. Despite this H1 volume still only reached […]