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
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
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
The State Street Global Exchange Private Equity Index (GXPEI) ended the first quarter of 2018 with a slight increase of 2.44 per cent. The Buyout funds category ended its streak of eight quarters of outperformance with a 2.09 per cent gain, lagging behind the 3.78 per cent return from Venture
The number of alternative fund managers choosing to future-proof their EU-focused funds through Jersey continued to grow in the first six months of 2018, according to the latest figures from Jersey’s financial regulator. Data from the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) for the period ending 30 June 2018 shows that
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
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 &
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
The UK’s tech industry is leading the way in the creation of billion-dollar businesses despite Brexit fears, according to research released today by technology investment bank GP Bullhound. In the past year, the UK has added six billion-dollar tech companies worth USD12.4 billion to its club of 26, more than
The market for initial public offerings in Canada crested the halfway point of 2018 with just more than CAD1 billion of new equity raised – a market characterised as ‘slow and steady’, according to the latest quarterly PwC Canada survey of the Canadian IPO market, published today. Eleven new issues
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