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Commercial Bank of Qatar has become the first Qatari bank to mandate for a bond following the successful sovereign return in April, and much is riding on its success.

Goldman Sachs-backed ReNew Power is seeking the greenlight for its IPO, having filed a draft red herring prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Board of India on Tuesday.

Commerzbank has added a director to its SSA team, hiring a former employee of Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

The IPOs of two Turkish retailers, Beymen and DeFacto, were cancelled at the end of last week, after failing to attract enough demand to cover the shares on offer. A third IPO, Şok Marketler, was extended to Wednesday May 9. All three were seeking to list in Istanbul.

IndInfravit Trust lifted the gloom in India’s infrastructure investment trust market this week after its Rp32.3bn ($484m) private placement, a first for the asset class, drew in Allianz Capital Partners and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

Bayer has taken the last step towards separating Covestro, its former plastics division, after pricing the biggest equity block trade of the year so far.

Investors appear certain that the Federal Open Market Committee will up its target rate at its next meeting in June, after this week’s gathering left levels unchanged, although expectations of further hikes have slightly fallen. Elsewhere, a supranational left next to nothing on the table as it brought a dollar syndication to market.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development looked to have taken almost every last cent off the table after increasing the size of a dollar floater from the size it set earlier in the day.

China Aoyuan Property Group’s $200m bond dropped sharply in the secondary market on Thursday as global markets wreaked havoc on the company’s notes.

The Republic of Ghana is heading off on a roadshow for 10 and 30 year bonds, with a tender offer for its existing 2022s and 2023s attached to the transaction.

China Aoyuan Property Group, Hydoo International Holding and Indonesia’s Federal International Finance wasted no time in hitting the bond market on Wednesday after the Labour Day holiday.

DTE Electric Co has become the newest member in the slowly growing club of investment grade US electric utility companies that have issued bonds explicitly marketed or certified as “green”.