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Grand City Properties, the German residential property firm, printed eight and a half year Swiss franc bonds on Wednesday, and also sold a new nine year in euros on Monday alongside a tender for some outstanding bonds and convertibles.

Grand City Properties, the German residential property firm, printed eight and a half year bonds on Wednesday, in the second foreign real estate deal in Swissies since 2013.

Chinese issuers are back following the Lunar New Year break. Far East Horizon and Redco Properties Group are both wooing bond investors, effectively reopening the dollar debt market in Asia.

VPBank Finance is tapping international loan market liquidity for an up to $200m three year facility, which has two lenders at the helm.

Flemingo Travel Retail has filed a draft red herring prospectus with India’s stock market regulator. The company plans to go public using a mix of new and existing shares.

In stark contrast with a mute high yield bond market, leveraged loan investors were expecting more than €5bn of new deals on Monday, including a $725m-equivalent deal from Swedish trade technology provider Itiviti, which includes a triple-C rated second lien.

Oleg Deripaska is to step down from his role as president of EN+, the Russian aluminium and hydropower company, which floated for $1.5bn in London and Moscow in November, and as president of its affiliate Rusal, as part of a pre-planned organisational change in which he will shift focus to other business interests.

National Australia Bank (NAB) and Société Générale issued Swiss franc bonds on Wednesday with tight pricing, in a sign that the market is luring financial borrowers to print opportunistically.

Creval, the Italian bank, has kicked off its fully underwritten €699m rights issue, having announced the price range late on Wednesday evening.

Mediobanca is selling five year senior preferred Swiss franc bonds, one day after National Australia Bank (NAB) and Société Générale raised funding in the market. Cross-currency basis swaps are improving for foreign issuers in Swiss francs, and interest rates are rising — which means there a more windows for banks to place opportunistic bonds.

Bookrunners will start marketing the financing for KKR’s buyout of Unilever’s spread business as soon as next week, with the European high yield bond and the leveraged loan market both braced for supply.

Baidu-backed video streaming platform iQiyi has filed documents with the US market regulator for a listing of American Depository Shares (ADS), according to the Chinese parent company’s quarterly earnings report released on Tuesday.