Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

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<li>Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.</li>
<li>Placements continued to flow in, at a slower pace than last week, with Malaysia and ANZ chipping in.</li>
<li>While the HK IPO scene failed to produce anything noteworthy with its two listing, South Korea appears to be leading the charge, once again.</li>
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Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.
Placements continued to flow in, at a slower pace than last week, with Malaysia and ANZ chipping in.
While the HK IPO scene failed to produce anything noteworthy with its two listing, South Korea appears to be leading the charge, once again.


ECM Weekly (3rd Apr 2022)- JD, Tencent, Prosus, One Store, SK Shieldus, FWD, Ferretti, Recbio, Belle

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), HDFC Securities

HDFC Securities

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<ul><li>Axis Bank announced the acquisition of Citibank’s cards, consumer lending, and wealth businesses in a transaction that is likely to be closed over the next 9-12 months</li><li>At an acquisition cost of US$1.6bn, while the deal appears to be a bargain for Axis Bank, the value accretion from Citi’s portfolio over the medium term is contingent on a host of factors including retention of existing customers, Axis Bank’s ability to continually add customers of such profile and its ability to up-sell and cross-sell</li><li>Although the Citibank transaction adds significant heft to Axis Bank’s competitive positioning across cards and wealth management businesses, we believe that Axis Bank will need to up its game in order to create sustainable value from the Citibank portfolio.</li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

Axis Bank announced the acquisition of Citibank’s cards, consumer lending, and wealth businesses in a transaction that is likely to be closed over the next 9-12 monthsAt an acquisition cost of US$1.6bn, while the deal appears to be a bargain for Axis Bank, the value accretion from Citi’s portfolio over the medium term is contingent on a host of factors including retention of existing customers, Axis Bank’s ability to continually add customers of such profile and its ability to up-sell and cross-sellAlthough the Citibank transaction adds significant heft to Axis Bank’s competitive positioning across cards and wealth management businesses, we believe that Axis Bank will need to up its game in order to create sustainable value from the Citibank portfolio.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Axis Bank (Update): Citibank consumer business calls for upping the game. Maintain BUY

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

Event-Driven

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<li>The changes to the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nifty-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:23617:1" rel="noopener">NIFTY Index (NIFTY INDEX)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nifty-bank-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26811:1" rel="noopener">Nifty Bank Index (NSEBANK INDEX)</a> and NIFTY NEXT50 Indices were announced on 24 February and will be implemented at the close today.</li>
<li>There is a fair amount to trade on the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nifty-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:23617:1" rel="noopener">NIFTY Index (NIFTY INDEX)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nifty-bank-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26811:1" rel="noopener">Nifty Bank Index (NSEBANK INDEX)</a> stocks given the sizeable passive assets that track the indices.</li>
<li>There is pre-positioning on some of the names and there could be opportunities to build positions to play for a reversal.</li>
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The changes to the NIFTY Index (NIFTY INDEX), Nifty Bank Index (NSEBANK INDEX) and NIFTY NEXT50 Indices were announced on 24 February and will be implemented at the close today.
There is a fair amount to trade on the NIFTY Index (NIFTY INDEX) and Nifty Bank Index (NSEBANK INDEX) stocks given the sizeable passive assets that track the indices.
There is pre-positioning on some of the names and there could be opportunities to build positions to play for a reversal.


NIFTY Index Rebalance: Flows at the Close Today

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<li>Navi Technologies (NT) aims to raise around US$500m in its India listing. NT was started by Sachin Bansal, co-founder of Flipkart which was sold to Walmart in 2018.</li>
<li>NT is a technology-driven financial products and services company. The company was only incorporated in 2018, it offers personal loans, home loans, general insurance and mutual funds. </li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the not so positive aspects of the deal.</li>
</ul>


Navi Technologies (NT) aims to raise around US$500m in its India listing. NT was started by Sachin Bansal, co-founder of Flipkart which was sold to Walmart in 2018.
NT is a technology-driven financial products and services company. The company was only incorporated in 2018, it offers personal loans, home loans, general insurance and mutual funds. 
In this note, we will talk about the not so positive aspects of the deal.


Navi Technologies Pre-IPO - The Negatives - Still Very Much a Work-In-Progress

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Ankit Agrawal, CFA

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<ul>
<li>HDFC Bank continues to make steady efforts on the digitization front as it gears up to be a digitally savvy bank. It has been revamping its apps, PayZapp and Smartbuy.</li>
<li>HDFC Bank (HDFCB) posted steady growth and improvement in asset quality in Q3FY22. The growth focus and risk-on stance is back in the retail book with normalization of the environment.</li>
<li>While HDFCB’s stock has been under pressure over the past 1Y, we believe apprehensions around its restructuring book and the impact on its payments led fee business are overdone.</li>
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HDFC Bank continues to make steady efforts on the digitization front as it gears up to be a digitally savvy bank. It has been revamping its apps, PayZapp and Smartbuy.
HDFC Bank (HDFCB) posted steady growth and improvement in asset quality in Q3FY22. The growth focus and risk-on stance is back in the retail book with normalization of the environment.
While HDFCB’s stock has been under pressure over the past 1Y, we believe apprehensions around its restructuring book and the impact on its payments led fee business are overdone.


India

Axis Bank Limited provides a full range of banking services throughout India. The Group's activities include retail banking, investment management, merchant banking, treasury and NRI services, cash and credit management services, and ATM facilities.

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ECM Weekly (3rd Apr 2022)- JD, Tencent, Prosus, One Store, SK Shieldus, FWD, Ferretti, Recbio, Belle

Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.

Sumeet Singh

Axis Bank (Update): Citibank consumer business calls for upping the game. Maintain BUY

Axis Bank announced the acquisition of Citibank’s cards, consumer lending, and wealth businesses in a transaction that is likely to be closed over...

HDFC Securities

NIFTY Index Rebalance: Flows at the Close Today

The March rebalance for the NIFTY family of indices will be implemented at the close of trading today. There is a fair amount to trade on the adds,...

Brian Freitas

Navi Technologies Pre-IPO - The Negatives - Still Very Much a Work-In-Progress

Navi Technologies (NT) aims to raise around US$500m in its India listing. NT was started by Sachin Bansal, co-founder of Flipkart which was sold to...

Sumeet Singh

HDFC BANK: Steady As She Goes

we believe some of the apprehensions around HDFCB, especially relating to its restructuring book and the impact on its payments led fee business,...

Ankit Agrawal, CFA

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