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FIT Hon Teng opened books this week for its potential HK$3.0bn ($384.3m) IPO and found investors scrambling to get in.

Argentina’s largest private energy company Pampa Energía wrapped up investor meetings with a lunch in New York on Wednesday but is yet to issue initial price thoughts on a planned fixed rate peso-linked international bond.

The Dutch government sold its second block of shares in ABN Amro on Tuesday night at a higher price and a tighter discount than its first, in an extremely well-received €1.5bn transaction.

FIT Hon Teng, a subsidiary of Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Hon Hai, has opened books for its all primary IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with a price range that could value the company at up to $2.6bn.

Korea Development Bank (KDB) added a dash of variety to Asia’s green market on Tuesday with its inaugural $300m deal, finding support from a combination of dedicated green funds, as well as conventional investors. Typical of issuers from South Korea, the policy bank did not pay any new issue premium for its fundraising.

NetLink Trust has kicked off bookbuilding for its up to S$2.7bn ($1.9bn) IPO, set to be Singapore’s largest listing in half a decade, according to a source close to the trade.

Korea Development Bank is venturing out to the green financing market, launching a dollar bond at the Asia open on Tuesday.

General Atlantic, the investment firm run by William Ford, launched on Monday night the sale of half its remaining stake in Axel Springer, the German media group. The €123m sale is covered, the range has been tightened and books are closing at 6.30pm.

Daimler was the only company to issue a new bond in the European market on Monday, but it brought a huge, €4bn deal. And it maintained the recent trend for pushing out to longer maturities.

Toby Ali has left his leveraged finance job at Bank of America Merrill Lynch to join Citi.

The sub-underwriting phase of a HK$28bn ($3.6bn) financing to support the take private of Hong Kong-listed footwear company Belle International Holdings has wrapped up, with nine lenders joining original mandated lead arranger and bookrunner (MLAB) Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML).

FIT Hon Teng is set to launch bookbuilding for its $500m Hong Kong IPO on Thursday, according to a source close to the deal.