Barclays

Barclays is pulling out of the cash equities business in Asia Pacific as the bank stages a total exit from a number of countries in the region including Taiwan and Korea.

Investors have taken up the vast majority of the shares offered by RPC Group, the plastic packaging maker, in a £233m rights issue it launched last month.

The State of Baden-Wüerttemberg and NRW.Bank priced deals in euros on Wednesday thus avoiding a clash with Thursday's European Central Bank meeting.

Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten (BNG) is the first SSA borrower this week to brave the dollar bond market as tricky conditions in other markets make life tough for issuers.

FMS Wertmanagement has added £150m to a two year benchmark due to mature in April 2018.

Irish Residential Properties REIT has put a new €250m loan facility to use in its acquisition of 442 Dublin apartments.

The Inter-American Development Bank has printed a £250m December 2019 bond that has set a new record for year-to-date supranational and agency sterling issuance.

Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional is gearing up for its first Islamic bond in dollars, having mandated banks to arrange a roadshow.

Ascential and Countryside Properties this week swelled the ranks of London’s declared IPO hopefuls, which already included CMC Markets and CYBG, as the UK ramps up to what is expected to be a busy IPO season.

Anheuser-Busch InBev’s $46bn seven tranche bond issue this week defied expectations that the brewer would have to pay up to finance its takeover of SAB Miller. InBev took out nearly two-thirds of its acquisition financing in one go.

A strong start to public sector dollar issuance in 2016 fell away this week, as volatile swap spreads returned and worries over the health of the Chinese economy made printing further along the curve difficult.

The Iberian Peninsula was host to a duo of barnstorming sovereign benchmarks this week, but there was no consensus among bankers over whether they signified an appetite for sovereigns at the lower end of the European credit quality spectrum.