Jefferies LLC

Jefferies is building out its CEEMEA trading operations, and eventually plans to add primary markets, derivatives and local currency trading to a revitalised business.

China Rapid Finance and Bright Scholar Education Holdings are venturing stateside to raise more than $300m from their IPOs.

Peer-to-peer lender China Rapid Finance has launched bookbuilding for its US listing, which could raise $115m, according to a termsheet seen by GlobalCapital Asia.

China Everbright Greentech (CEG) is drumming up interest for a $500m Hong Kong IPO, with investor meetings starting this week, said bankers on the deal.

Shares in ACS Group, the Spanish civil engineering company, closed 1% lower on Tuesday after Iberostar Hotels & Resorts, the Palma-based hotel chain, sold its entire 5.61% stake in a block trade, for €554.4m.

Peer-to-peer lender China Rapid Finance is vying for approval to float in the US, having filed preliminary documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Christopher Niehaus, a former managing director in industrials investment banking at Jefferies, for sharing information about a client’s rights issue to impress his friends.

Countrywide, the UK estate agency group that owns Hamptons International and listings website Rightmove, raised £37.8m of new equity in an intraday sale on Thursday to strengthen its balance sheet after a drop in profits.

Five new IPOs were announced in EMEA this week as the market enters a crucial window in the run-up to Easter.

Shares in Cobham, the troubled UK aerospace and marine technology company, closed 13% higher on Thursday after the company unveiled its 2016 results and a turnround plan involving a second £500m rights issue in nine months, to strengthen its balance sheet.

RPC Group, the UK maker of rigid plastic packaging, has secured a 96% take-up on the £552m rights issue it launched to reduce its leverage after making seven takeovers since September.

India's Barbeque Nation Hospitality has picked one international and one domestic bank to lead its planned IPO, with the deal slated for this year.