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Kia Motors Corp is ready to hit the road for a 144A/Reg S bond that could come to the market as early as mid April.

The owner of Forterra, the UK maker of masonry products, intends to sell at least a quarter of the firm’s stock in an all-secondary deal that could fetch about £200m.

French pharmaceuticals company Sanofi revived the zero coupon bond on Tuesday as it returned to the bond market issuing its favoured triple tranche structure.

The City of Paris is set to follow deals from the European Stability Mechanism and SNCF Réseau last week by bringing a trade at the long end of the euro curve.

Equitas Holdings has tweaked plans for its potential Rp20bn ($300.3m) IPO, as it works to become the first small finance bank to go public in India.

Banks continued to take advantage of the rally in high grade credit as Citigroup and Svenska Handelsbanken printed benchmark trades ahead of the Easter holiday.

Senvion, the German wind turbine maker, listed in Frankfurt on Wednesday after a tortuous process that saw the firm’s owners pull its IPO last week, then grudgingly relaunch it just five days later in a shrunken, cheaper format.

State Bank of India launched its $500m fundraising into general syndication on Tuesday via eight mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners.

Citi veteran David Ratliff has resigned as Asia Pacific head of the public sector group, according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia.

Several large banks active in European ECM breathed a sigh of relief this week, as they completed the tortuous IPO of German wind turbine marker Senvion — one of only a few listings on offer in the quiet lead-up to Easter.

China's Fosun International is planning to spin off and list wholly-owned insurance subsidiary Ironshore, according to a filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

The bookbuild for the initial public offering of Senvion was completed a day early, on Monday evening, and resulted in a price near the bottom of an already much lowered price range.