Equity Capital Markets
Issuance reached $3.3 billion this week from 20 deals -- pushing volume for the year so far over the $76 billion mark to the highest year-to-date level ever. Goldman Sachs now leads the field in the league table ranking with $5.4 billion followed by UBS and J.P. Morgan on $4.9 billion and $4.5 billion respectively.
Goldman Sachs has jumped to the top of the rankings from third place last week on the back of Ping An Insurance Group's $1.2 billion accelerated bookbuild, which was the largest issue of the week. Goldman led the transaction on a sole basis.
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