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Intesa Sanpaolo and Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba) gave investors the chance to put money into preferred senior paper on Tuesday. Both trades attracted chunky order books and gave away a small new issue premium.

Pharmaron Beijing Co, a pharmaceutical research and development service platform, has launched its Hong Kong SAR flotation, aiming to raise up to HK$4.6bn ($587.8m), said a source familiar with the matter.

After more than two decades with Goldman Sachs, India co-chief executive officer Vijay Karnani is set to retire at the end of the year, according to a memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia.

Ball Corporation, a US metal packaging and aerospace technology company, is looking to cut its financing costs with a €900m issue of senior unsecured notes. Crown, its closest peer in metal packaging, set a new floor — just 0.75% — for high yield coupons in Europe in October.

Chinese biotechnological company Venus Medtech (Hangzhou) is set to launch its Hong Kong IPO, having lined up an international syndicate to run the deal.

Royal Dutch Shell’s choice this week of a tight syndicate, heavy with US banks, to lead $4bn and €3bn of bonds has laid bare the sense of vulnerability among banks outside the US bulge bracket, as some expressed resentment at being left out of a lucrative and prestigious mandate.

Baring Private Equity Asia is seeking a $265m loan to support its acquisition of India’s CitiusTech.

High grade dollar bond investors are braced for the biggest deal of the year after AbbVie, the pharmaceutical company, appointed a trio of banks to lead a possible $25bn issue that could come as soon as Monday.

Colgate Palmolive and Boston Scientific Corp printed €1.9bn of bonds this week, the latest US companies in the line to issue euro debt.

Technology firm Apple issued its first euro green bond on Thursday, selling a €2bn deal that bankers thought had been priced flat to its curve. The issue continued a strong recent run of Reverse Yankee deals.

Boston Scientific Corp, the US medical devices maker, obtained plenty of demand for its €900m bond as it made its debut in the Reverse Yankee market on Wednesday, while the euro corporate bond pipeline continues to fill for a flurry of issuance in November.

Oil major Royal Dutch Shell hit the euro bond market on Tuesday with a three-tranche trade that had an eight year tranche as its shortest maturity, Syndicate bankers say European Central Bank bond buying is creating more demand further out along the maturity curve.