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CMGE Technology Group and Haitong UniTrust International Leasing are keeping their IPO plans alive, having resubmitted applications to the Hong Kong's stock exchange.

Global alternative investment firm Castlelake is tapping the offshore loan market for $685.1m to support its purchase of aircraft from Malaysia’s AirAsia.

Spanish telecommunications company Cellnex’s €1.2bn rights issue has finished more than 16 times covered after its shareholders bought into its growth plans.

Barclays is under pressure from activist investor Edward Bramson to slim down its investment bank. But among top European IBs, it made the second highest amount of revenue in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in 2018, according to new research. The results were less promising for Deutsche Bank, however.

High yield bond investors in Europe are getting squeezed from both sides, as formerly regular visitors to the market hit investment grade status, and new acquisition financings hit the loan market rather than bonds. Schaeffler’s blow-out debut in the investment grade bond market on Tuesday took out €1.5bn equivalent of former HY product.

A surge of additional tier one issuance this week shone a light on how activity in the market is going to shape up in the coming months and years — refinancing is now the main game in town.

With many Asian companies readying their earnings in their respective blackout periods, a trickling of Chinese property bonds have kept debt investors busy.

BMW Auto Finance on Tuesday brought its biggest Chinese auto loan ABS since its market debut five years ago. The Rmb 5.5bn ($820m) deal, said bankers, showed that the market will boom this year.

Despite a slight softness in the European corporate bond market at the end of Tuesday, Wednesday brought another strong deal. CNH Industrial, the agricultural machinery and lorries group backed by the Agnelli family, issued an eight year bond that was increased to €600m.

GlobalCapital announced the winners of its 2018 Equity Capital Markets Awards at our annual Awards dinner in London on Tuesday night. Adyen, Knorr-Bremse, Netcompany and Neoen were among the deals that won prizes as company founders, CFOs and senior managers mingled with leading investment bankers.

The European corporate bond market’s charmed life continued on Tuesday, as if the intensifying crisis of Brexit was just a dream. Two triple-B issuers and one single-A all found the same deep demand that has greeted every deal for the past few weeks.

Stadler Rail, the Swiss train maker, is gearing up for an IPO on the SIX Swiss Exchange in April, having filed an intention to float document on Tuesday.