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On Tuesday, pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline returned to the corporate bond market for the first time since November 2014, and its rarity value contributed to combined order books of over €5.5bn for the triple tranche deal.

Two levfin issuers, Sebia and Refresco, this week added €3bn to an already large pipeline of euro and dollar-denominated leveraged loans being touted around a bustling European market. But some bankers are fretting that underwriters face little room for mistakes if pricing widens.

Switzerland’s Julius Baer Group is offering investors a little something new, launching an inaugural dollar-denominated Basel III additional tier one (AT1) bond on Tuesday morning in Asia.

The European high yield bond market returned from its summer break to €2.8bn of new bond offerings this week, including a sub-benchmark sized note from Delaware’s Kronos International on Monday.

Tanzania has signed a $500m loan with Credit Suisse and a syndicate of other banks, according to an official close to the deal.

A €600m two tranche bond issue to finance the Spanish retailer Cortefiel’s LBO will be the euro high yield market’s starting shot for the second half of the year.

A group of institutions working towards a distributed ledger solution for cash settlement has doubled in size, as six global investment banks came aboard this week.

Europe’s equity block trade market made an impeccable start to its autumn season on Wednesday night, when two repeat sellers brought trades in familiar, recently floated stocks, and both found strong demand.

Best, a logistics firm backed by Alibaba, started pre-marketing its $1bn IPO on the New York Stock Exchange this week, as a clutch of Chinese issuers also filed listing applications in the US.

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The bookrunners on logistics company Best’s potential $1bn US IPO have kicked off pre-marketing, according to a banker working on the deal.

Veteran investment banker Chris Howe will join Credit Suisse at the end of September as head of fixed income trading for Asia Pacific.