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Club Brugge, the Belgian football club, has begun bookbuilding for its IPO on Euronext Brussels, having fixed the price range at €17.50 to €22.50 a share.

Japfa Comfeed Indonesia sold the country's first sustainability-linked bond this week, leveraging the market fervour for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing to tighten pricing more than it would have for a conventional deal. Morgan Davis reports.

The controlling shareholder of Thailand’s Stark Corp has sold a chunk of his shares in the company, raising Bt3.77bn ($122.4m) after pricing the deal towards the top of price guidance.

Swiss Steel, the Swiss steel company formerly known as Schmolz + Bickenbach, has finished its Sfr247m at-market rights issue, following a rump placement on Monday night.

The euro market burst into life with new FIG deals on Monday, as borrowers reacted to supportive comments from the European Central Bank last week. Bankers now expect plenty of supply to fill out the pre-Easter pipeline.

Former Commerzbank CEO Martin Blessing has unveiled plans for a new special purpose acquisition company focused on financial technology in Europe, becoming the latest European banking executive to launch a Spac.

Hong Kong is facing the possibility of a fifth Covid-19 wave in the city, with the latest virus bubble infiltrating the financial industry.

Any fears about the resilience of the US corporate bond market were set aside on Thursday when Verizon Communications amassed a $115bn orderbook and printed one of the biggest deals of the year.

A flurry of Swiss franc issuance dusted the market this week, as domestic and foreign borrowers entered a more settled market.

L Catterton Asia Acquisition Corp has bagged $250m from its Nasdaq IPO, as it becomes the latest special purpose acquisition company (Spac) focused on Asia to list in the US.

Secondary listings in Hong Kong got a fresh boost this week with online car marketplace Autohome pricing its deal and internet giant Baidu getting ready to roll out its transaction. More homecomings by US-listed Chinese companies are in the pipeline, but the number of viable candidates is shrinking, writes Jonathan Breen.

US-listed Autohome, an online car marketplace, has wrapped up its HK$5.34bn ($687.8m) secondary offering in Hong Kong, pricing the deal even as its US stock dived amid a market rout.