Banks

Santander Consumer Finance entered the Swiss market on Monday, selling Sfr150m ($150.8m) four year Swiss franc bonds via Credit Suisse.

Canaan, the world’s second largest maker of cryptocurrency mining equipment, is in a waiting game with the Hong Kong bourse for its IPO to be approved.

Turbulence in China’s equities and bond markets forced Shimao Property Holdings to cull one portion of a dual-tranche dollar bond deal this week as investors shied away from the longer tenor.

Dafa Properties Group raised HK$840m ($107m) after pricing its Hong Kong IPO a few cents above the middle of the marketed range.

ASK Investment Managers and microfinance lender Muthoot Microfin have won listing approval from India’s market regulator.

GlobalCapital understands UK utility company Scottish and Southern Electric (SSE) is roadshowing in the US private placement (US PP) market for £400m ($528m) equivalent offer across dollars and sterling.

A senior fixed income syndicate banker at UniCredit has retired, GlobalCapital understands. Bankers at rival firms hailed him as “a true original and a character”.

Spain’s Soltec has signed a €100m loan from local banks, as the photovoltaic tracking equipment company furthers its global expansion.

Leveraged buyouts are making a comeback in the European high yield market in October, with the new €1.3bn note for CVC’s acquisition of Italian pharmaceutical firm Recordati the latest example.

BNP Paribas has appointed a new head of credit trading desk analysts for European banks, with the hire joining from MUFG Securities.

Gulf International Bank has cancelled a five year dollar bond that it began roadshowing at the end of September.

Weidai, a Chinese peer-to-peer lender, started drumming up interest for a possible $100m IPO on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.