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Wind Tre, the Italian telecoms company, issued its €7.3bn senior secured bond deal on Tuesday, a day ahead of schedule, and priced all four tranches at the tight end of guidance.

The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) brought its long awaited inaugural dollar transaction to market on Tuesday during a period of feverish activity in a dollar market that is “going from strength to strength”, according to one SSA banker.

Ablynx, the Belgian biopharmaceutical firm, has raised $200m through a second listing in the US, following positive momentum in the development of a new drug designed to combat a life-threatening blood clotting disorder.

Shares in Bawag, the Austrian banking group, closed below their offer price on Wednesday after the company priced its €1.68bn IPO at €48 a share, near the bottom of the initial €47 to €52 range.

The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) hit the offshore market yet again on Tuesday with a dual tranche dollar bond, a month after the South Korean issuer sold a Singapore dollar deal and a Formosa bond.

The FCA has imposed its first fine for failure to report derivatives trades under the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) — but endemic cultural issues in large banks suggest it won’t be the last.

One of the biggest IPOs in London this year was revealed on Monday when Arqiva, the UK’s largest operator of TV and radio broadcast towers, launched an IPO with a projected valuation of about £5.5bn.

The European Stability Mechanism is finally set to come to market to sell its first ever dollar bond, lining up for a transaction on Tuesday alongside two SSAs looking to access the rare 10 year dollar tenor.

NRW.Bank is set to return to the sterling market on Tuesday, coming on the heels of a tap from the Council of Europe Development Bank.

Another long-awaited IPO kicked off on Monday when Emaar Properties, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) real estate company, launched the spin-off of its flagship property development business, albeit with a smaller deal size than initially expected.

En+ Group, the Russian power and metals company controlled by Oleg Deripaska, has opened the books for its $1.5bn IPO in London and Moscow, which may value it at up to $8.5bn if the deal is priced at the top of its price range.

Tencent-backed China Literature has kicked off bookbuilding for a Hong Kong IPO that could raise up to HK$8.32bn ($1.07bn), according to a term sheet seen by GlobalCapital Asia.