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◆ Europe's corporate bond market braces for US tech issuance surge ◆ Canada makes move for EU regs equivalence but to what end? ◆ Middle East private placements here to stay... but will take up less room
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September redemption cash and shortage of supply support investor demand
Private placements may have hung around much longer than first expected but their dominance may be at an end

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  • Turkey continued to teeter on the brink of a currency crisis this week, as the lira went on another rollercoaster ride and touched a record low.
  • Companies across Europe are shifting their aspirations from surviving the coronavirus pandemic to making the most of the economic opportunities it may present. Both loan and bond bankers are seeing more requests to help clients fund M&A. In the last few weeks, multiple companies have signed loans linked to acquisitions and more are expected after the summer.
  • The Nigerian National Petroleum Company has raised a financing package, backed by multilateral lenders, commercial banks and oil trading companies.
  • Agricultural Development Bank of China’s Rmb4.3bn ($618m) dim sum bond this week brought in a record number of investors from outside of Asia, a senior treasury official told GlobalCapital China.
  • Alibaba Health Information Technology navigated concerns around its lofty valuations to pull off Hong Kong’s largest primary follow-on in five years, raising HK$10bn ($1.29bn) after boosting the size of the deal. The transaction closed with a bulging book, showing that demand for the healthcare sector is yet to peak. Jonathan Breen reports.
  • The Bank of England has said it may be necessary to make ‘temporary changes’ to capital buffers in the UK, owing to concerns that the existing framework could discourage banks from lending during the coronavirus pandemic.