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Taiwan-based M17 Entertainment, a web streaming platform, has filed for a $115m IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.

The Republic of Ghana raised $2bn with a dual tranche 10 and 30 year bond issue on Thursday, timing the deal well as emerging market assets rallied after several days of weakness.

Hong Kong-listed Angang Steel has sealed its debut in the international equity-linked market with a HK$1.85bn ($236m) five year put three trade.

GlaxoSmithKline added to the crush of red hot dollar bond supply this week, as borrowers began a spring stampede to lock in funding ahead of a likely rate rise next month.

The Republic of Ghana was set to price its dollar dual tranche bond as GlobalCapital went to press on Thursday evening, having picked a phenomenal day for a deal, with the bonds of several African sovereigns bouncing two points.

A supranational dollar deal ran away with April’s top spot in BondMarker, outstripping the rest of the table by a good margin and clocking in as the third most highly rated deal of the year.

The Republic of Ghana is taking advantage of a more stable day in emerging market currency trading to print its bond, though the country’s outstanding paper has widened during the roadshow.

A pair of Singapore Reits came to the equity market this week to raise funds for acquisitions, pocketing S$779.1m ($581.0m) between them.

Investors poured into Korea Water Resources Corp’s $300m green bond on Tuesday, satiating their thirst after a rare offering from the state-owned issuer. The deal got a boost of liquidity after the bookrunners tapped a growing pool of green-focused investors.

Carlyle raked in Rp10.2bn ($151.5m) from an overnight sale of some of its shares in Indian mortgage lender PNB Housing Finance on Tuesday.

The IPOs of two Turkish retailers, Beymen and DeFacto, were cancelled at the end of last week, after failing to attract enough demand to cover the shares on offer. A third IPO, Şok Marketler, was extended to Wednesday May 9. All three were seeking to list in Istanbul.

IndInfravit Trust lifted the gloom in India’s infrastructure investment trust market this week after its Rp32.3bn ($484m) private placement, a first for the asset class, drew in Allianz Capital Partners and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.