Tuesday, December 6, 2011
UniCredit rights issue will pave the way for European ECM next year
Craig Coben, head of EMEA equity capital markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Oliver Holbourn, head of equity syndicate, presented the firm’s forecast for the business in 2012 today. The volume charts paint a disappointing pattern. EMEA equity capital markets volume was $301 billion in the first full year of the financial crisis in 2008; it rose to $374 billion in 2009, as banks and corporations repaired balance sheets; volume declined to $210 billion in 2010 and looks on course for barely $180 billion for 2011.
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