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Chinese real estate companies Kaisa Group Holdings, Jingrui Holdings and China SCE Group Holdings came to the market on Monday after announcing strong financial results for 2018 last week, raising $900m between them.

The IPO of Stadler Rail, the Swiss train manufacturer, is already covered after opening the books on its Sfr1.4bn IPO on the SIX Swiss Exchange on Monday morning, according to a banker involved in the deal.

Indonesian clothing retailer Map Aktif Adiperkasa (Map Active) has hit the market with an up to Rph5.03tr ($353m) secondary share offering.

Chinese state-owned investment bank Shenwan Hongyuan Group kicked off pre-marketing on Monday for its Hong Kong IPO.

Credit Suisse has appointed David Krap as head of Northern European M&A.

Logistics provider ESR Cayman raised $250m from the bond market this week, ahead of a planned IPO in Hong Kong later this year.

Sportswear firm Xtep International Holdings has raised HK$1.37bn ($175m) after increasing the size of a top-up placement on the back of strong new and existing shareholder demand.

India’s Metropolis Healthcare has set the terms for its Rp12bn ($174.5m) IPO and is preparing to launch book building next week, according to a term sheet seen by GlobalCapital Asia.

Hong Kong’s Konew International Group has debuted in the offshore loans market, raising $150m.

Telecoms company Cable & Wireless, which operates mostly in the Caribbean, added $300m to its longest dated bond on Wednesday in a deal that received strong backing from US high yield buyers.

Abegg Holding, the Swiss family office for Annina Müller‐Bodmer, gave the market an extremely rare liquidity event on Monday night by selling its entire stake in Huber + Suhner, the Swiss maker of fibre optic cables, for Sfr152m ($153m) following a prolonged share price rally.

Investors looking at the multi-billion euro listing of Italian payments company Nexi are largely comfortable with the country’s political environment, focusing more on whether its private equity sellers will seek too high a price.