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Nexi, the Italian payments firm listing in Milan, is to price its IPO at €9 a share, just off the bottom of its initial price range.

China’s Shenwan Hongyuan Group Co launched its Hong Kong IPO on Thursday, seeking upwards of $1.3bn from the sale.

Bond investors appeared relieved after Brazilian steel producer Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) raised $1bn of new bonds to refinance debt maturing in the next year.

Conglomerate Alicorp sold the second global nuevo sol bond to emerge from Peru in a week on Wednesday, copying the execution pattern that worked well for Telefónica del Perú last week and pricing inside its lower-rated compatriot.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has completed a $2.3bn loan syndication, to replace a $3bn revolving credit facility.

After issuing a £500m seven year bond in March, Glencore repeated the performance, this time in the euro market. It issued a €500m 7.5 year bond that achieved a similar book size and price tightening. Telecom Italia also issued for the second time this year, after losing its Fitch investment grade rating on Friday.

Finablr, the Abu Dhabi-based cross-border currency and financial technology holding company which owns Travelex, has filed initial paperwork ahead of announcing an intention to list on the London Stock Exchange.

Three Chinese property companies battled in the primary market on Monday with competing supply. While high yield issuers have been able to sell bonds at ultra-tight prices of late, the weight of supply has started to force issuer’s to pay more to borrow.

LG Chem, the chemical and battery producing arm of South Korean group LG, launched its first euro and dollar bonds this week, after a long sojourn in the won market. All three tranches, which were also green bonds, were heavily oversubscribed.

Diageo, the UK distiller and brewer, followed its recent habit and issued a multi-tranche bond on Monday — but with a difference. It included sterling notes for the first time since 1995.

Xinyuan Real Estate Co priced a $200m bond that came with a 14.2% coupon, as heavy supply continues to weigh on the Chinese high yield real estate bond market with both new issue concessions and secondary performance suffering.

Brazilian steel producer Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) is hitting the road ahead of a proposed new issue, just a month after investors told GlobalCapital that an impressive rally in the company’s debt made it a strong candidate to tap bond markets.