Deutsche Bank

Grand City Properties, the German residential property firm, printed eight and a half year Swiss franc bonds on Wednesday, and also sold a new nine year in euros on Monday alongside a tender for some outstanding bonds and convertibles.

Two more Deutsche Bank staff put at risk of redundancy in the bank's major investment banking cuts round have emerged — a director in African origination and an analyst working in project finance.

Chinese issuers are back following the Lunar New Year break. Far East Horizon and Redco Properties Group are both wooing bond investors, effectively reopening the dollar debt market in Asia.

The euro SSA market is returning to a more aggressive pace of issuance after a slackening in tempo last week. Two borrowers raised a combined €3bn on Wednesday and another pair are set to print on Thursday.

The equity capital market has kicked back into life this week with a number of high profile deals to test investor appetite. But with investors challenging IPO valuations and volatility causing a scare, lead managers might have to start selling deals on their fundamentals rather than relying on bullish market sentiment to do the job.

The equity blocks market in EMEA reopened after Presidents Day on Tuesday night with trades in WPP, the UK advertising agency, and Banca Farmafactoring.

The Republic of Slovenia is once again in the market with a liability management exercise that will enable it to tidy its debt structure by buying back up to $650m of its outstanding dollar bonds, as it continues its bid to consolidate its outstanding dollar debt into one bond maturing 2024.

Spain’s first trip to the long end of the curve in almost two years met with an overwhelming response, as the sovereign received one of the largest books ever for a 30 year bond.

SGG Group, the corporate and investor services firm based in Luxembourg and owned by Astorg, will fund its acquisition of UK peer First Names in the leveraged loan market, which has already enjoyed its busiest January ever in EMEA.

French issuers ALD and Mercialys continued the triple-B theme of the week in the investment grade corporate bond market when the pair announced new deals on Tuesday. These followed three BBB+ rated credits on Monday.

In July 2017, German property company Grand City Properties announced a tender of its 2021 bonds alongside a new nine year issue. On Monday it repeated the process, offering to buy what remained of the 2021 bond it didn’t buy in July and adding a tender for its 0.25% 2022 convertible bonds.

Siemens has begun the IPO process for the highly anticipated spin-off of its health division, Siemens Healthineers, by releasing its intention to float document.