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  • South Africa made its largest ever trip to capital markets on Monday, raising $5bn across two tranches. However, the size may have been too ambitious as the bonds suffered early in the secondary market. Although they have since recovered, some investors may be deterred from jumping into the rest of the week’s slew of deals.
  • Natixis has become the first bank to introduce a green weighting factor to its internal capital model, so that the way it prices loans is skewed to favour environmentally sound assets and disadvantage polluting ones. The ground-breaking move brings to fruition an 18 month project and anticipates what some believe may one day be demanded by regulators.
  • Chinese sportswear retailer Topsports International Holdings has opened books for its up to HK$9.4bn ($1.2bn) Hong Kong listing.
  • Strong investor appetite for Thai bank capital deals helped Kasikornbank beat expectations with its $800m Basel III-compliant tier two bond.
  • Budweiser Brewing Company Apac has raised HK$39.2bn ($5bn) after pricing its IPO at the bottom of guidance, and partially using an increase option. It was the company’s second attempt at listing in Hong Kong.
  • Shanghai-based China Pacific Insurance Co (CPIC) has received the green light from its board to list in the UK using the London-Shanghai Stock Connect, becoming only the second Mainland company to do so.