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SBI Cards and Payment Services is preparing to launch its IPO of up to Rp95bn ($1.3bn) in the first week of March after getting the go ahead from the market regulator, according to a source close to the deal.

Avenue Supermarts' founder Radhakishan Damani and his family members are looking to raise Rp30.3bn ($424.7m) from a secondary share sale, following an issue of new stock by the company last week.

British Telecommunications joined the red hot hybrid capital market on Tuesday, tightening the yield on its new bond by around 60bp during execution as investors clamoured for returns.

India’s Avenue Supermarts has raised Rp40.98bn ($575.2m) after sealing its qualified institutional placement above the floor price.

Akelius Residential Property, the Swedish property company, ratcheted in the yield on its hybrid capital issue by 50bp on Monday, setting the stage for a romping week of similar issuance as further names line up deals.

LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton SE, the French luxury goods group, and Comcast, the US telecoms company, brought the European corporate bond market’s two biggest multi-tranche issues of the year on Wednesday, each hitting sterling and euros and blasting aside fears around coronavirus epidemic’s economic impact. LVMH raised €9.33bn, and Comcast €4.6bn.

Avenue Supermarts, which runs Indian supermarket chain DMart, has launched a qualified institutional placement worth about Rp40bn ($561.3m).

UPC, part of Liberty Global’s European telecoms empire, is marketing dollar and euro term loan ‘B’s to pay off a $1.14bn issue of 5.375% senior secured notes. The refinancing comes only a few months after Sunrise cancelled its takeover of UPC’s Swiss business — to the disappointed of Liberty.

Essity, the hygiene and health products company spun off by Sweden's SCA in 2017, slipped into the bond market with a €300m no-grow 10 year issue on Tuesday. The issuer was estimated to have paid a low single digit new issue premium.

UK defence company BAE Systems announced its biggest acquisition for more than a decade this week, spurring hopes for a wave of UK M&A now the Brexit endgame is in sight.

Private equity firms are looking at different ways of monetising their investments, rather than the usual IPO routes, as regulation makes smaller firms less viable in the public markets. Alternative capital providers outside the usual buyout community are also boosting their allocations to private assets.

There was a burst of activity from Chinese pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in the equity capital markets this week, as the sector took centre stage following the spread of a flu-like virus that has already claimed lives on the mainland. Jonathan Breen reports.