After a bumper year of stock listings, Asian companies may find it hard to repeat the success in 2022 given the prospect of rising interest rates and China’s tightening grip on Big Tech.
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The world’s biggest equity capital market deals of this year have almost exclusively come out of Asia, in a sign of the growing clout of the region’s companies, even as markets teeter going into the end of the year.
A US$14.7 billion secondary share sale in Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd (騰訊) in March is the biggest follow-on offering this year, as well as the second-largest block trade on record.
The top five additional sales this year are all by Asian firms, including Japan Post Holdings Co and Singapore’s Sea Ltd.
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BEIJING: The world’s biggest equity capital markets deals of 2021 have almost exclusively come out of Asia, in a sign of the growing clout of the region’s companies even as markets teeter going into year-end.