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Naftogaz of Ukraine elected to pull its long six year benchmark bond from the market on Monday, postponing it indefinitely.

Criteria Caixa is sounding out investors for a new seven year unsecured euro bond: its first at this tenor in over five years.

Korea Development Bank took $1bn from a dual tranche transaction on Monday, using a social label for one portion of the bond to attract a new group of investors.

Ant Group has got the go ahead from regulators for the Hong Kong portion of its dual listing, which is expected to raise around $30bn in the largest ever primary share offering globally.

Singapore-listed Mapletree Logistics Trust is funding an acquisition spree of logistics assets in Asia by tapping the equity market for up to S$650m ($479m).

Nanofilm Technologies International is giving the Singapore Exchange some much-needed IPO activity, launching the first main board listing on the bourse since the beginning of the year.

Focus was on the public market this week, with supranationals making up the majority of MTN supply.

Citi has appointed Christopher Perkins and Sabrina Wilson as global co-heads of its futures, OTC clearing and FX prime brokerage business, following Jerome Kemp’s retirement from the industry.

The world’s biggest banks sat out the primary bond market in dollars this week, dashing hopes of a pre-election funding blitz.

Agricultural Bank of China and Bank of China’s investment arm tapped the bond market on Thursday, joining a host of other issuers that also sought fresh funding.

Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) made a rare outing in the dollar market on Thursday, competing with hefty supply from Greater China to raise $300m.

Asia’s dollar bond market has been swamped with new deals this week. Thursday was no different, with corporate borrowers from Greater China alone raising just over $3bn between them.