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Chinese e-commerce company JD.com covered its Hong Kong secondary listing within a few hours of opening bookbuilding late last Friday evening, with orders continuing to pour in on Monday.

Three European companies, one of them a high yield issuer, jumped into the corporate bond market on Friday, the first to test the waters after the European Central Bank's promise the previous day to top them up with another €600bn of liquidity through its Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (Pepp). They found overwhelming demand, leading to fast sales, an increase and deeply negative new issue premiums.

Reliance Industries raised Rp531.2bn ($7.04bn) this week from India’s largest ever rights issue and the company’s first primary equity offering for over 25 years.

Chinese e-commerce company JD.com will open books for its Hong Kong secondary listing on Friday after the markets close, according to two sources close to the deal.

Europe’s investment grade companies added to the workload of a rejuvenated but busy green bond market on Wednesday with deals from Alliander and Prologis. But debt bankers believe that, after weeks of emergency funding in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the coming weeks should bring the return of more run-of-the-mill trades.

Online casino gaming company DoubleDown Interactive is planning a Nasdaq IPO, the first by a South Korean company in nearly a decade.

Greentown Service Group, a Chinese property manager, pocketed HK$2.71bn ($350.2m) on Tuesday after increasing the size of a primary share placement.

Repsol, the Spanish oil major, had a rip-roaring time in the hybrid capital bond market on Tuesday, achieving bumper books and paying minimal new issue concessions for its dual tranche issue. But some bankers think the market is starting to look too exuberant and may be due a correction.

China Meidong Auto Holdings turned to investors on Tuesday for up to HK$1.01bn ($130.4m) from a top-up placement, according to a source familiar with the matter.

China’s Dada Nexus, an operator of on-demand retail and delivery platforms, has launched bookbuilding for its up to $280.5m US listing, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Geely Automobile Holdings has tapped the equity market for the first time for 11 years, raising HK$6.48bn ($836m) from an overnight share sale.

BASF and Pearson brought green and social bonds on Thursday, as sustainability-linked issuance continues to pull Europe’s high grade corporate market out of the darkest days of the coronavirus pandemic’s panic funding phase.