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Ten companies raised a combined $1.6 billion in the most active week of the 2017 IPO market. Texas community bank CBTX took the top spot with a 10% pop, which is still below the long term historical average of 13%. The week featured three regional banks, three biotechs, three fast-growing Chinese companies and a communications platform pivoting to growth. First day...read more

Four growth deals all priced above their respective ranges and traded up on their market debut. Notably, next-generation database company MongoDB priced above its upwardly-revised midpoint and traded up 34% on its first day. This week saw two of the five largest deals this year, which included Chinese small loans...read more

LINE (LN), the popular Japanese messaging platform, popped 27% on Thursday after raising $1.15 billion in the largest US tech IPO since Alibaba in September 2014. While tech IPO activity still remains well below historical levels, LINE’s IPO is the latest positive data point from the sector. The past ten tech IPOs finished Thursday with a positive return...read more

The last IPO of 2015 priced this week - 170 companies raised $30 billion this year.  On Thursday night, Yirendai priced, just the fifth Chinese company to price a US IPO this year, representing a 64% decline from the 14 Chinese companies that came public in 2014. None of the Chinese IPOs from...read more