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Postal Savings Bank of China will raise up to HK$62.7bn ($8.1bn) via its Hong Kong IPO after setting the price range, putting it on track to be the world’s biggest listing in two years.

Asian primary bond market calmed down after a frantic Thursday, with only two issuers opening books

Lat Am new issue activity could hardly have had a better start to September as Minerva Foods raised $1bn of 10 year bonds at a flat to negative new issue concession. Strong flows into EM funds are creating conditions that are hugely attractive for borrowers.

The sterling market for public sector borrowers woke from its summer slumber with a bang this week, as a series of issuers approached the currency in a variety of ways and for different reasons.

The dollar market enjoyed another strong week with a group of issuers printing, but borrowers are looking ahead to a new wave of interest from bank treasuries in Asia — and some are reporting that the demand has already arrived.

Spanish telecoms provider Telefónica latched onto the swell of investor demand for riskier corners of the European investment grade corporate bond market on Thursday as it issued a €1bn hybrid bond.

Two of the most familiar names in the high yield borrower base on Wednesday launched a splash of payment-in-kind notes, a rare structure which has constituted only €570m of sales this year.

Israeli plastics manufacturer Keter Plastic has launched its €790m buyout loan package with a bank meeting scheduled for Monday morning in London.

Transport infrastructure group Ferrovial on Wednesday returned to the bond market after a two year absence, selling a €500m note. It was followed later in the week by two other Spanish corporates.

SIG Combibloc, the Swiss packaging firm owned by Onex, launched its second repricing request on its leveraged buyout loans with a lender call scheduled for Thursday morning New York time, as replies were due on Armacell's own repricing.

Two Hong Kong-based loans bankers from Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Asia Pacific debt solutions team have left, while Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ has lost its southeast Asia loans head.

Asia’s block market got a boost this week as investors sold down stakes in Longfor Properties Co and People's Insurance Company of China (PICC) in Hong Kong, while Lippo Group trimmed its holding in Indonesia’s Matahari Department Store.