Deutsche Bank

Both investment grade corporate bond new issues on Wednesday came from French issuers. Surprisingly, Total issued its first euro bond of 2017, while PSA Banque France sold its second.

Geo Energy Resources is making a second attempt at selling a dollar bond, two months after the Indonesian coal producer decided to cancel its transaction.

Deutsche Wohnen, one of the biggest listed German residential property companies, added its name to the string of equity-linked deals in Europe this month on Tuesday when it printed an €800m eight year note to finance a tender offer for a previous convertible bond, due in 2021.

Hungary is set to take advantage of lower rates in euros to buy back its more expensive outstanding dollar debt.

Four mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners have rolled out Chinese e-commerce firm JD.com’s debut borrowing into syndication at razor-thin pricing levels.

Vincom Retail, a subsidiary of Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup, has filed for approval to list on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange, targeting a $600m IPO.

Indian animal feed and agribusiness company Godrej Agrovet plans to bring a Rp11.65bn ($178.6m) IPO to the market on October 4, with the deal to feature both new and secondary stock.

AMS, the Austrian maker of sensors and microchips, opened a new week in the equity-linked market on Monday with its first ever convertible bond issue, which was priced at attractive terms for the issuer.

Heineken used the quieter end of the week in terms of issuance to price its second benchmark corporate bond issue of the year. The sixth benchmark issue of the year in Europe by a beer producer was the only deal in the market on Friday.

I Squared Capital’s $900m-equivalent Hong Kong dollar loan backing its acquisition of Hutchison Global Communications (HGC) pulled in more than 20 banks during senior syndication, with more expected to join before the deal wraps up this week.

Investors bought into attractive yields from triple-B rated issuers that jumped into the US corporate bond market ahead of the Fed’s well flagged announcement that it would reverse quantitative easing.

A slightly more hawkish than expected US Federal Open Market Committee meeting mid-week has nudged up US Treasury yields — bringing 10 year dollar issuance nearly within SSAs’ reach, said bankers. But in the meantime, SSA bankers are looking at the dollar pipeline with dismay.