Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<li>On Friday after the close, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/seven-i-holdings-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:1041:1" rel="noopener">Seven &amp; I Holdings (3382 JP)</a> announced a ToSTNeT-3 buyback scheduled for Monday morning for ¥400bn, worth 8+% of shares outstanding. </li>
<li>That's big. But the seller is likely to be SMBC Nikko. And they will then spend much of the next year buying back ¥400bn of shares on-market. </li>
<li>Separately, 7&amp;i announced an alliance with Softbank Corp, PayPay, and Sumitomo Mitsui Card. They will buy ¥100bn each. Net, this means a 2% buyback IF successful. More if not.</li>
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On Friday after the close, Seven &amp; I Holdings (3382 JP) announced a ToSTNeT-3 buyback scheduled for Monday morning for ¥400bn, worth 8+% of shares outstanding. 
That's big. But the seller is likely to be SMBC Nikko. And they will then spend much of the next year buying back ¥400bn of shares on-market. 
Separately, 7&amp;i announced an alliance with Softbank Corp, PayPay, and Sumitomo Mitsui Card. They will buy ¥100bn each. Net, this means a 2% buyback IF successful. More if not.


[Japan Buyback, But Not] 7&I (3382) To Buy Back ¥400bn from Market, Sell ¥300bn to Crossholders

Financials & FinTech research, Galliano’s Financials Research

Victor Galliano

Financials & FinTech research

Financials & FinTech, EM & Developed Markets

Galliano’s Financials Research

Galliano's Financials Research provides fundamental research in Emerging Markets financials, including FinTech, as well as financials in select Developed Markets.

The investment style applied is generally value oriented, although Growth At Reasonable Price (GARP) strategies can also be used where appropriate. 

Our investment research approach aim is often contrarian, looking to capitalise on overly sceptical or optimistic consensus views. In terms of valuation techniques, the focus is on PBV ratio to ROE, PE multiples and dividend yield, as well as the application of PEG ratios and, where appropriate, Sum of the Parts (SOTP) valuations.

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>In the current volatile investment climate, we rein in our buy ratings retaining just one name despite the continuing attractive valuation metrics</li>
<li>We remove attractively valued PagBank and recent IPO PayPay from our payments buy list, due to a more volatile, potentially “risk-off”, investment climate</li>
<li>We keep only Klarna on the buy list, due management’s solid execution and attractive valuations, but we advise reducing positions</li>
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In the current volatile investment climate, we rein in our buy ratings retaining just one name despite the continuing attractive valuation metrics
We remove attractively valued PagBank and recent IPO PayPay from our payments buy list, due to a more volatile, potentially “risk-off”, investment climate
We keep only Klarna on the buy list, due management’s solid execution and attractive valuations, but we advise reducing positions


Payment Companies Update: Reining in Positive Recommendations

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.

Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.</li>
<li>On the IPO front, most of the listings this week didn't do much.</li>
<li>On the placement front, given the market volatility, there weren't any large deals. We did look at some of the upcoming lockup expiries.</li>
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Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.
On the IPO front, most of the listings this week didn't do much.
On the placement front, given the market volatility, there weren't any large deals. We did look at some of the upcoming lockup expiries.


Aequitas ECM Weekly (16 March 2026)- Past A/H Trends, Delton, Raajmarg, Ringpai, FS.com, Everdisplay

Director, Head of Research, Smartkarma

Pranav Rao

Director, Head of Research

Smartkarma

Smartkarma unites the fragmented investment industry, connecting institutional investors, independent research providers, and corporates within a single network.

Research Reinvented

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<li>Welcome to Curator’s Cut - a fortnightly roundup of standout themes from the 1,300+ insights published on Smartkarma.</li>
<li>In this cut, we review the outlook for energy markets amid the Persian Gulf conflict, highlight coverage of gold miners large and small, and identify opportunities in Japanese financials.</li>
<li>Want to dig deeper? Comment or message with the themes you’d like to see highlighted next.</li>
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Welcome to Curator’s Cut - a fortnightly roundup of standout themes from the 1,300+ insights published on Smartkarma.
In this cut, we review the outlook for energy markets amid the Persian Gulf conflict, highlight coverage of gold miners large and small, and identify opportunities in Japanese financials.
Want to dig deeper? Comment or message with the themes you’d like to see highlighted next.


Curator's Cut: Crude Reality, Reshuffling Gold Miners & Banking on Japanese Fintech

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<li>Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.</li>
<li>On the IPO front, a number of deals are set to list in the coming week.</li>
<li>On the placement front, Nintendo's placement appears to be shaping up fine.</li>
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Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.
On the IPO front, a number of deals are set to list in the coming week.
On the placement front, Nintendo's placement appears to be shaping up fine.


Aequitas ECM Weekly (9 March 2026)- Nintendo, Mixue, PayPay, UI Boustead, Sunway, Zhaowei, Estun

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PayPay Corporation offers financial services. The Company provides mobile payment and other electronic payment services. PayPay conducts its businesses in Japan.

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Travis Lundy

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Sumeet Singh

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Aequitas ECM Weekly (9 March 2026)- Nintendo, Mixue, PayPay, UI Boustead, Sunway, Zhaowei, Estun

Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.

Sumeet Singh

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[Japan Buyback, But Not] 7&I (3382) To Buy Back ¥400bn from Market, Sell ¥300bn to Crossholders

7&i has announced a ¥400bn buyback offset by a ¥300bn sale of shares to new crossholders. Not a great look. The buyback looks like 25+% of Max Real...

Travis Lundy

Payment Companies Update: Reining in Positive Recommendations

​In the present volatile investment climate, only Klarna remains on our buy list due to solid execution and attractive valuations; our caution...

Victor Galliano

Aequitas ECM Weekly (16 March 2026)- Past A/H Trends, Delton, Raajmarg, Ringpai, FS.com, Everdisplay

Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.

Sumeet Singh

Curator's Cut: Crude Reality, Reshuffling Gold Miners & Banking on Japanese Fintech

​This Curator's Cut highlights energy market outlook, gold miners coverage, and opportunities in Japanese financials from Smartkarma insights....

Pranav Rao

Aequitas ECM Weekly (9 March 2026)- Nintendo, Mixue, PayPay, UI Boustead, Sunway, Zhaowei, Estun

Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.

Sumeet Singh

In the present volatile investment climate, only Klarna remains on our buy list due to solid execution and attractive valuations; our caution...

This Curator's Cut highlights energy market outlook, gold miners coverage, and opportunities in Japanese financials from Smartkarma insights....