{"id":294001,"date":"2019-09-27T11:13:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T05:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=294001"},"modified":"2019-09-27T11:13:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T05:43:52","slug":"aramco-picks-smbc-nikko-securities-as-1st-japanese-bookrunner-for-ipo-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aramco-picks-smbc-nikko-securities-as-1st-japanese-bookrunner-for-ipo-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Aramco picks SMBC Nikko Securities as 1st Japanese bookrunner for IPO: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Saudi Aramco has chosen SMBC Nikko Securities as a bookrunner for its initial public offering (IPO), the first Japanese financial firm to grab a role in the mega deal, three sources familiar with the matter said. Aramco has hired over a dozen banks including U.S. and European banks to manage its IPO as it seeks to tap a wider global investor base for a potential $20 billion local listing in Riyadh of around 1% of the company&#8217;s shares.<\/p>\n<p>The selection of a Japanese financial player comes amid speculation about Tokyo being a possible overseas destination for the Aramco listing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Saudi Aramco has chosen SMBC Nikko Securities as a bookrunner for its initial public offering (IPO), the first Japanese financial firm to grab a role in the mega deal, three sources familiar with the matter said. Aramco has hired over a dozen banks including U.S. and European banks to manage its IPO as it seeks to tap a wider global investor base for a potential $20 billion local listing in Riyadh of around 1% of the company&#8217;s shares. The selection of a Japanese financial player comes amid speculation about Tokyo being a possible overseas destination for the Aramco listing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}