Banks

ING executed a large sterling deal this week, choosing the green format for its new senior issue from the holding company.

Intesa Sanpaolo has issued its first senior non-preferred deal, making use of investors' optimism about the new prime minister Mario Draghi to bring this eagerly anticipated transaction to the market. DNB Bank also chose Wednesday for its own debut in the format.

Italian payments company Nexi has issued a new €1bn convertible bond to refinance its acquisition of Nets, a Danish competitor.

Conor Davis is replacing Jim O'Donnell as head of investor sales and relationship management for Citi's markets business.

Oliver Ives, most recently at advisory firm Ondra Partners, has joined Deutsche Bank.

Martin Luehrs has been appointed to lead global capital markets at Morgan Stanley's Frankfurt-based broker dealer.

Pakistan’s Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) is planning to sell its debut dollar bond in late March, in what would be a rare international corporate outing from the country.

The logistics unit of Chinese internet company JD.com is planning to list in Hong Kong through a multi-billion-dollar IPO.

RailTel Corporation of India, a state-owned information and communication technology infrastructure provider, has received strong and early retail support for its upto Rp8.19bn ($112.4m) IPO.

VPBank Finance Co, the consumer finance arm of Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank, has further increased the size of its loan to $230m after additional banks joined the deal.

Banco Santander Chile sold its first ESG-themed bond on Tuesday, raising $50m in a private placement with a Japanese investor to finance small and medium sized enterprises led by women.

Japan's NEC Corp offloaded its remaining stake in Hong Kong-listed Hua Hong Semiconductor on Tuesday, raising HK$5.69bn ($733.9m).