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Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt., which runs the Manipal Hospitals chain, is set to begin formal marketing as early as next week for its planned initial public offering to raise more than $1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

Mid-market investment bank Lincoln International Inc. and some of its backers are seeking to raise $421 million in a US initial public offering.

Safepoint Holdings Inc., an underwriter of specialty homeowners and commercial insurance, filed for an initial public offering, disclosing growing profit and revenue.

Inspire Brands Inc., the owner of fast-food chains Dunkin’, Arby’s and Jimmy John’s, filed confidentially for a US initial public offering.

Wall Street banks are getting ready to raise billions of dollars taking data center companies public, even after IPO investors have already piled into anything that looks like a bet on artificial intelligence spending.

ASG Hospital Pvt., an Indian eye-care chain backed by General Atlantic, is planning to file for an initial public offering as early as this month that could raise up to $500 million, according to people familiar with the matter.