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Alibaba Group Holding pulled off the year’s largest IPO this week, raising HK$88bn ($11.2bn) from its Hong Kong secondary listing. The company has given the stock exchange a much needed boost in morale, while signalling to other foreign-listed Chinese companies that they can come home. Jonathan Breen reports.

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Vicky He has rejoined Credit Suisse after leaving the bank in June.

Hong Kong’s PCGI Intermediate Holdings, a subsidiary of FWD, raised $250m from the bond market on Tuesday. While the company hit its size target, orders were limited and the price guidance was unchanged throughout the day.

Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) increased its Swiss franc debt stack on Tuesday, pricing a Sfr200m ($202m) four-year bond that was double the size of its last outing in the market.

Ageas is offering to purchase FRESH securities — a series of legacy capital instruments — from its investors, in a bid to improve its capital structure. The Belgian insurance company intends to replace the notes with a new restricted tier one bond in euros.

A group of shareholders in GSX Techedu has launched a follow-on offering of the Chinese education technology firm’s US-listed stock.

Africa Finance Corporation, the pan-African multilateral development finance institution (DFI), has mandated for a Swiss franc bond as its only other note in the currency approaches redemption.

Alibaba Group Holding has fixed the price for the retail portion of its secondary listing in Hong Kong after launching the deal without a marketing range, according to an announcement by the company.

India's Adani Transmission wooed investors to a $500m long-dated bond issuance on Thursday, offering them some concession for the amortising nature of the notes.

AbbVie enjoyed the undivided attention of US bond investors on Tuesday when it hit the market with a $30bn 10 tranche deal that, remarkably for such a big deal, priced with a negative new issue concession.

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