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Scout24 on Monday launched the bookbuilding phase of a Frankfurt initial public offering that could value the car and home sales website company at between €2.9bn and €3.5bn.

Interoute Communications, Europe’s largest operator of cloud services, began offering €590m of bonds on Monday to fund its recent takeover of peer Easynet from the UK’s MDNX Group.

Credit Suisse has appointed John Woods as chief investment officer, Asia Pacific, for private banking and wealth management.

Symetis, the Swiss company that makes heart valves, began the bookbuild for its Sfr80m IPO on the SIX Swiss Exchange on Tuesday.

Hastings Group Holdings, the UK car insurance company, announced on Tuesday its plan to float on the London Stock Exchange, issuing about £180m of new shares. The deal will also include a secondary component.

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association is likely to have to change its licensing practices as a result of a $1.9bn credit default swaps price fixing settlement by banks, according to a source familiar with the case.

Interglobe Aviation, the holding company of Indian budget carrier IndiGo, and Coffee Day Enterprises are looking to launch their IPOs in October, in deals that could raise a combined Rp36.5bn ($548.19m).

Chinese company Minsheng Financial Leasing’s offshore fundraising, which was launched at $200m, has received commitments from more than 10 banks during general syndication. But the final size of the loan is yet to be determined.

This week produced an encouraging run of equity block trades, with a sprinkling of modestly sized deals on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Credit Suisse and Achmea Bank both launched successful fixed rate notes on Tuesday while Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken’s floater struggled to attract a good level of demand.

SGL Carbon, the German manufacturer of products from carbon, issued a successful €167m convertible bond on Wednesday morning, and launched the repurchase of an existing CB.

As if to prove that it was not put off its stride by yesterday’s news that Citi had hired its chief equity block trade banker, Goldman Sachs is at the centre of tonight’s accelerated bookbuild business with two trades.