Credit Suisse

In a troubled new issue market strewn with casualties, the $1.8bn-plus IPO of ConvaTec, the UK medical supplies maker, got covered at its base size on Tuesday, while Misys, the London-based banking software producer, opened the books for its £650m-£750m IPO with a lower free float than initially planned.

Tanner Servicios Financieros reignited Chilean issuers' involvement in the Swiss franc bond market on Wednesday by issuing a Sfr150m ($151.7m) three year note.

China Resources Pharmaceutical Group, Samsung BioLogics and ZTO Express all have investors clamouring to join their IPOs, as they look to raise a combined $5.2bn.

Chinese data firm GDS Holdings has opened its potential $270.2m US IPO, which is expected to replicate the strong interest received by other recent listings in the country from Mainland names.

State-owned Trinidadian power plant Trinidad Generation Unlimited (TGU) began meeting investors on Wednesday ahead of a planned bond debut.

China Great Wall Asset Management Corp launched its dual-tranche offering on Thursday morning.

Bayer has released the names of the banks in its $56.9bn loan for the acquisition of Monsanto, the jumbo deal tickets have bumped up some lenders in European league tables.

Food and drinks giant Nestlé has signed €10.5bn of loans to refinance five and one year deals. The company refinanced to secure a similar group of banks in both deals, according to one banker.

Yuzhou Properties Co’s latest bond had a bumpy ride this week as it struggled to garner interest for a longer tenor and one of its joint global co-ordinators dropped out.

A group of banks and service providers, led by New York based start-up Axoni, have completed a test of blockchain technology and smart contracts to manage affirmations and post-trade lifecycle processing for over-the-counter equity swaps, building on similar work done earlier this year for credit derivatives.

ZTO Express and Samsung BioLogics are seeing bumper responses for their jumbo IPOs in the US and South Korea respectively, as bankers expect their bookbuilds to gain even more momentum.

Credit Suisse has hired Edwin Yeung from HSBC to set up a new US and European credit electronic trading desk in Hong Kong.