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CUSIP request volume ebbs in July

CUSIP identifier requests for the broad category of US and Canadian corporate offerings, which includes both equity and debt, totalled 4,197 in July, down 16.6 per cent from June, according to CUSIP Global Services’ (CGS) latest CUSIP Issuance Trends Report. On a year-over-year basis, corporate identifier request volume through July

Global political uncertainty delays M&A deals

BDO publication Horizons reveals that global mid-market M&A activity in Q2 2018 dropped 6.6 per cent; in other words, a total of 1,782 deals were registered, representing a total deal value of USD157.8 billion – or a 4.5 per cent drop – compared to Q1 of this year. When the

Value of UK e-retail M&A deals up 14-fold in the last year

The value of UK M&A deals involving e-retail businesses has jumped to GBP461 million in 2017/18, a fourteen-fold increase from just GBP31 million the previous year, says RPC, the City-headquartered law firm. RPC says that this M&A activity has been driven by deals targeting luxury fashion e-retailers, as both luxury

Sanjoy Chatterjee, Investment Metrics

Investment Metrics and InvestorForce to merge

Resurgens Technology Partners has acquired InvestorForce from MSCI and is to merge it with portfolio company Investment Metrics. The combined investment analytics and reporting solutions business will cater for investment consultants, wealth managers and investment managers. The transaction is expected to close within the next three months, subject to customary

Debt funds take almost 50 per cent market share in German LBO market

The latest MidCapMonitor prepared by the investment bank GCA Altium, which regularly analyses leveraged buyout finance transactions with a credit volume of between EUR20 million and EUR500 million, recorded a 48 per cent share of debt funds in the LBO market in the first half of 2018.  Debt funds successfully

South Korean private equity returns massively outperforming the public market

A decade-long review of South Korea’s private equity market reveals that investments have generated returns of around 20 per cent, far outstripping the public equity market which has only achieved between 1 and 3 per cent annual returns over the last five years.  The new analysis, completed by McKinsey &

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Scope publishes new Investment Team Rating methodology

Scope has published a new rating methodology for evaluating the quality and competence of individual investment teams within asset management companies. The methodology is applied to investment teams which predominantly invest in liquid, traditional instruments such as shares and bonds, as well as in liquid alternative strategies such as long/short

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Municipal CUSIP request volume climbs for fourth straight month

CUSIP Global Services’ (CGS) CUSIP Issuance Trends Report for June 2018, which tracks the issuance of new security identifiers as an early indicator of debt and capital markets activity, has revealed a found a fourth straight monthly increase in requests for new municipal bond identifiers, while CUSIP request volume for corporate

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