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Deutsche Bank has appointed Frazer Ross as its head of European flow syndicate, adding responsibility for the SSA syndicate business to his existing oversight of the corporate, financials, emerging markets and EMTNs syndicate.

After a couple of slow weeks for corporate bond issuance in Europe, the pace quickened somewhat on Tuesday, with two €500m no-grow issues. One was from a familiar name - Carrefour, the French supermarket chain - the other from a new one, Samhällsbyggnadsbolaget i Norden, a Swedish residential property company founded only in 2016.

Three new high yield issues were launched into marketing in Europe on Tuesday, including a pay-if-you-can bond, even though the market was a bit weaker after President Donald Trump’s sabre-rattling about raising trade tariffs on China.

Ireland appointed banks on Tuesday for its second syndicated bond of the year, which will extend its euro benchmark curve to 2050 (31 years).

Evotec, the biotech and healthcare company headquartered in Hamburg, has launched a Schuldschein with a €100m starting target.

Eagle Hospitality Trust has cut the floor of the initial price guidance for its Singapore IPO, hiking up the yield for investors while delaying the end of its roadshow, according to a source close to the deal.

The shares of Chinese plastic surgery social network So-Young International surged on their first day trading on the Nasdaq, after the firm priced its hot IPO at the top of guidance.

US bond bankers are looking forward to a bumper May, with a slew of big ticket M&A financings set to hit the dollar market within days. Bristol-Myers Squibb announced a roadshow on Thursday for a deal that is expected to be around $21bn, to help fund its acquisition of Celgene.

BNP Paribas recorded a sharp rise in revenue in its fixed income, currencies and commodities trading (FICC) operations during the first quarter, it said on Thursday. Other European investment banks have registered relatively good scores on this front so far this reporting season, with the exception of Deutsche Bank.

Shares in Tesla, the US maker of electric vehicles, gained as much as 2.8% on Thursday morning after the company announced it would raise up to up to $2.3bn of capital by selling new shares and convertible bonds to strengthen its balance sheet following a net loss of $702m in the first quarter of the year.

BASF’s oil and gas unit Wintershall and rival DEA have completed their merger, creating the largest independent oil and gas company in Europe, paving the way for a blockbuster IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2020.

For all its woes, Deutsche Bank’s corporate finance business has much to play for in EMEA, writes David Rothnie.