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The disparity between ratings and spread levels was highlighted in the euro high grade corporate bond market on Wednesday, after German conglomerate JAB Holdings opened books on a deal 40bp wide of lower rated Italian utility A2A, despite the same maturity and size.

JAB Holdings and Prosus have hired banks to run bond issues, adding to the barrage of corporate deals in the works before Europe's summer break.

Xpeng bagged HK$14bn ($1.8bn) this week from the first secondary listing in Hong Kong by a Chinese electric vehicle maker.

Salesforce found deep demand to secure $8bn and fund the biggest acquisition in its history as the dollar corporate bond market remained wide open in the run-up to the July 4 holiday weekend.

BNP Paribas has retained its place at the top of the EMEA loan league table for the first half of 2021, but its market share is much smaller than for the same period last year.

Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi has raised $4.4bn from its New York Stock Exchange IPO, increasing the size of the float after investors pumped more than $40bn of orders into the book.

Repsol, the Spanish petrochemicals company, made its first foray into sustainability-linked bonds on Tuesday, though some of the power was taken out of the deal by investors judging the level too tight for a triple-B rated issuer.

Chinese online grocer Dingdong (Cayman) has cut its US listing size to $94.4m, just over one-quarter of its initial target, after rival Missfresh plummeted in its Nasdaq debut last week.

The IPO of Yahsat, the Abu Dhabi satellite company, will be the largest flotation in the United Arab Emirates for almost four years, according to terms published on Sunday.

SCE Intelligent Commercial Management has raised HK$1.85bn ($238.3m) after pricing its IPO at the bottom of the guidance range.

Xpeng has kicked off its Hong Kong secondary listing, the first from a Chinese electric vehicle maker.

Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing has launched its New York Stock Exchange IPO, aiming to raise $4.03bn from the largest China-into-US listing since Alibaba Group Holding’s jumbo $25bn deal in 2014.