Credit Suisse

ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance Co has raised HK$11.9bn ($1.5bn) after pricing its hugely popular Hong Kong IPO at the top of guidance, according to a banker on the deal.

Chinese online retailer of luxury goods Secoo Holding priced its $110.5m listing of American Depository Shares on Thursday, finding favour among investors thanks to an attractive discount.

Crédit Agricole issued a six and a half year Swiss franc bond on Thursday, opting for senior preferred in a bid to diversify towards Swiss investors.

Credit Suisse has refreshed its management team in EMEA and is ramping up in the region again. This time it’s different, writes David Rothnie.

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ cleaned up its position in CIMB Group this week, offloading more than 400m shares in an accelerated bookbuild to raise MR2.55bn ($607m).

Chinese logistics firm Best, which counts Alibaba Group Holdings among its shareholders, raised $450m from its US IPO this week, chopping the deal by half to get it over the finish line.

Societe Generale has hired Francisco Sottomayor as its head of global markets for Spain and Portugal.

Credit Suisse has replaced Marisa Drew and Mark Echlin as co-heads of EMEA investment banking and capital markets with Mathew Cestar and Jens Welter. The bank also announced a senior hire in leveraged finance.

Interoute, a UK network and cloud services operator, is set to refinance its only high yield bond issue with a new leveraged loan that it launched this week.

ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance Co has opened books for its much-anticipated Hong Kong IPO, which could raise up to HK$11.9bn ($1.5bn).

Latin American oil and gas company GeoPark sold $425m of seven year non-call four notes last week, with the first leg of a concurrent tender offer due to expire on Tuesday.

Investors scrambled for yield in the dollar bond market this week as Concho Resources printed its debut investment grade offering amid nearly $19bn of other corporate offerings.