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Sea, the e-sports giant formerly known as Garena, opened the books for its $695.8m US IPO on Monday, after adding a group of southeast Asian banks as underwriters.

Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khanazah Nasional offloaded a block of Malaysia Airports Holdings' shares on Tuesday night, raising MR476.2m ($112.7m).

Chinese micro-lender Qudian has launched bookbuilding for its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, which could raise up to $825m, according to a banker close to the deal.

Investors got another chance to build up more exposure to the UK’s flourishing challenger banking sector on Tuesday night when JC Flowers, the US private equity firm, launched another block trade of shares in OneSavings Bank.

The second recent IPO of a cash shell to finance house building in Ireland began on Monday, when Glenveagh Properties set out to raise €550m on the London Stock Exchange, with a listing in Dublin as well.

Iron Mountain, Bormioli and Constellium revved up the engines of the European high yield market with new deals announced on Tuesday that pushed overall issuance so far this year closer to 2014’s all-time €84bn high.

Credit Suisse named a new top team for its EMEA FIG investment banking group, with a Morgan Stanley banker joining the business as co-head.

Overseas Chinese Town (OCT) managed to capture the last window before China’s Golden Week holiday to price a $800m senior perpetual bond. Malaysia’s Yinson Holdings had a similar idea, selling a $100m perp.

Singapore-based Sea began pre-marketing a potential $1bn US IPO this week, according to a banker close to the deal.

Vincom Retail, a subsidiary of Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup, has started pre-deal investor education for its $600m IPO, and is working on an unusually short roadshow-to-listing schedule.

Indian animal feed and agribusiness company Godrej Agrovet, which counts Singapore's wealth fund Temasek Holdings among its backers, plans to launch its Rp11.65bn ($178.6m) IPO on October 4.

Mizuho has hired Julie Edinburgh to fill a new position: head of vanilla MTNs.