Italy's Enel Green Power to float on Monday

It was another tough year for miners looking to go public in 2012 but not for Robert Friedland, the legendary mining entrepreneur whose long-awaited initial public offering of Ivanplats Ltd. was easily the most successful mining IPO of the year.

AIA Group Ltd said Sunday it will offer at least 5.86 billion shares priced at between 18.38-19.68 Hong Kong dollars each in a global public offering.US insurer AIG won approval last month for the sale of its Asian unit AIA, in what could be the world's second-biggest initial public offering this year.At current exchange rates, the IPO could raise up to 15 billion US dollars, before any greenshoe option.The insurer, which is looking to repay US taxpayers after a government bailout in 2008, is planning to float about half of AIA.

Italian power group sets listing price at €1.8-€2.1 per share in what will be Europe’s biggest initial public offering this year

India's top lender to the poor, SKS Microfinance, said Monday it hopes to raise up to 350 million dollars in an IPO as it becomes the country's first microfinancier to float.SKS, which lends small sums to India's neediest who are unable to get credit from mainstream banks, is selling a 22 percent stake in the initial public offering (IPO).There are currently more than 3,000 micro-finance institutions and self-help groups in India, lending more than seven billion dollars to nearly 80 million users, but SKS is the country's biggest.

Travel reservations group Amadeus said Wednesday it hoped to raise 1.3 billion euros in an initial public offering in what would be the largest stock flotation in Europe since the start of the global financial crisis.The company, the biggest provider by number of airline bookings in the world according to its web site, plans to float some 25 percent of its capital when it returns to the stock market on April 29 after a five-year absence.

Heavily indebted Italian electricity group says the €13bn planned flotation of a minority stake in Enel Green Power, its renewable energy business, is to be dual listed in Italy and Spain