Credit Suisse

CNFinance Holdings has filed for a $200m flotation of American Depositary Shares on the New York Stock Exchange.

Idorsia, the Swiss biopharmaceutical company, has raised Sfr505m ($503.82m) to finance advanced clinical trials after a simultaneous share and convertible bond sale overnight in Zurich.

Credit Suisse's latest additional tier one (AT1) was well above par in the secondary market on Tuesday, as some investors thought the large size of the deal would boost its trading level.

Jackson National Life (JNL), the US insurance company, reacted to an arbitrage window at five and half years and issued Sfr200m ($201.3m) Swiss franc bonds on Monday.

Credit Suisse was looking to complete to raise additional tier one (AT1) capital on Monday and to become only the second bank to launch a benchmark-sized transaction in the format since April.

Credit Suisse has been fined $77m by the US authorities to settle charges around its hiring of friends and family of Chinese government officials to win investment banking business.

Mainland real estate services firm E-House China Enterprise Holdings launched bookbuilding on Friday for a Hong Kong IPO that could raise up to HK$5.7bn ($727.2m).

More Chinese technology start-ups have come out with their IPO plans, as Pinduoduo, Aurora Mobile and Opera file their US debuts.

Deutsche Bahn sold 10 year Swiss franc bonds on Tuesday at a price roughly in line with its euro funding levels.

Pinduoduo, one of China’s hottest internet start-ups, has filed for a $1bn IPO in the US, upping the ante in an e-commerce landscape dominated by Alibaba Group.

Two borrowers, Marlink and Iris Software, offered a string of new medium sized leveraged loans this week, following the recent launch of some highly anticipated jumbo deals that sources say have helped renew investor interest in the European market.

Something strange is occurring in Switzerland, where the Swiss franc bond market is rife with both deep optimism and pessimism. Deal execution is riskier than it has been for years, but is being driven by bond buyers’ perceptions of better times ahead. Silas Brown asks whether the market is about to regain its mojo or if this is a case of jam tomorrow.