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Real estate developer Vietnam Investment Group Joint Stock Co (VIG) is looking to borrow $125m offshore in a deal led by one bank.

As block trade bankers had predicted, the fireworks are starting again as companies emerge from blackouts. Five deals totalling €2.8bn were in the market on Wednesday night, but there were no auctions: all of them were mandated trades, leaving banks away from the action with nothing to bid on.

Windeln.de, the German online baby products seller, dropped 18% today on its first day of trading in Frankfurt – a bitter conclusion to an IPO process that had appeared to run smoothly until then.

Sweden priced an oversubscribed $2.25bn three year on Wednesday while a German state attracted strong demand to its debut in the currency.

German airline Deutsche Lufthansa has held an investor call for its postponed hybrid capital bond issue, after making a €133m operating loss in the first quarter of 2015, smaller than a year ago.

HNA Airport Holdings is in the market for a $70m loan that will be used for extension of the Sanya International Airport.

Shanghai Electric Group Company (SEC) is preparing to issue its first euro bond having mandated 10 banks for a series of investor meeting starting on May 8.

Sweden has mandated banks to run a benchmark in dollars, taking advantage of a clear window of issuance in the currency this week because of holidays in Japan.

DP World, the container ports group, is roadshowing a dollar benchmark conventional bond issue this week via Barclays, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Emirates NBD, HSBC, National Bank of Abu Dhabi and Société Genérale.

Wasion Group Holdings, a maker of utility distribution devices, has raised HK$734.40m ($94.76m) in a top-up placement and sale of secondary stock, locking in gains from the rally that gripped Hong Kong’s stock market since last month.

Rob Ebert has been appointed Deutsche Bank’s head of equities for Asia Pacific, replacing Dixit Joshi who has taken up the position of global head of prime finance.

Real estate developer Vietnam Investment Group Joint Stock Co (VIG) is looking to borrow $125m offshore in a deal led by one bank.