Citi

Citi has taken market share from other banks in the past year to become one of only four that account for 60% of all secondary market covered bond volume traded on Bloomberg so far this year, thanks to a combination of devoting balance sheet to trading and having the appetite to take risk.

Chinese delivery company Yunda Holding Co made its debut in the dollar market on Wednesday, raising $500m.

India's placements market is heating up, with new issuers set to raise fresh equity.

Inter-American Development Bank will come to market for a Canadian dollar sustainable development bond on Thursday. The trade will share the market with a two year from Kommuninvest.

Hong Kong-based Li & Fung used a coupon step-up in case of a rating downgrade to attract investors to its $300m bond on Tuesday, as it gears up for a big hit to its business this year as a result of Covid-19.

ICICI Bank has closed its up to Rp150bn ($2bn) qualified institutional placement, according to a source close to the deal.

Chinese developers E.House and Beijing Properties closed taps to outstanding dollar bonds at the end of last week, raising $250m between them.

Alibaba Health Information Technology navigated concerns around its lofty valuations to pull off Hong Kong’s largest primary follow-on in five years, raising HK$10bn ($1.29bn) after boosting the size of the deal. The transaction closed with a bulging book, showing that demand for the healthcare sector is yet to peak. Jonathan Breen reports.

Hope Education Group made its debut visit to the equity capital market this week, raising HK$1.2bn ($153m) after increasing the size of a primary share placement.

Investors threw their weight behind Housing Development Finance Corp's Rp140bn ($1.87bn) fundraising this week.

CMB Financial Leasing Co returned with five year and 10 year dual-tranche bonds on Wednesday, selling the first decade bond from a Chinese FIG credit in more than a month as costs for longer-dated notes fall.

Charles-Antoine Roche has joined Citi’s sovereign, supranational and agency syndicate desk after spending over a decade in the bank’s medium term notes business.