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Cemex, Thomas Cook, Telenet and Lowen Play injected €1.7bn of bond offerings into a visible high yield issuance pipeline already populated with Pinewood and CeramTec this week.

Greece was able to exchange more than €25bn of old bonds for new assets in an exercise designed to normalise the borrower’s curve. The offer ended on Tuesday, in the midst of discussions about the conditions that will be attached to Greece’s next tranche of emergency loans. The fresh curve should allow the borrower to return to capital markets twice in 2018.

An undisclosed shareholder has sold $114m of shares in Mail.ru, the Russian internet services company. The sale came a month after the company's co-founder Dimitry Grishin placed 4.7m global depositary receipts with institutional investors in a block trade, after numerous reverse enquiries.

Swedish speciality chemicals firm Perstorp is lining up the European high yield market’s first December deal, with a €485m two tranche bond that is expected to be priced next week.

On Thursday German telecoms company Deutsche Telekom sold its third bond with a 2024 maturity, while Italian state owned railway operator Ferrovie Dello Stato issued its first green bond.

Alibaba Group Holding navigated every roadblock on its way to a $7bn issuance on Wednesday, sealing the second largest corporate bond from Asia after its own $8bn debut three years ago. The unexpected sell-off in tech stocks and US Treasuries posed only a small challenge to the tech giant’s debt market return, writes Addison Gong.

Greece was able to exchange more than €25bn of old bonds for new assets in an exercise designed to normalise the borrower’s curve. The offer ended on Tuesday, in the midst of discussions about the conditions that will be attached to Greece’s next tranche of emergency loans.

Europe's IPO market may be winding down, with only small, niche deals still being announced, but block trades are popping. This is likely to lead to a nail-biting finish in the league table race.

Srei Equipment Finance, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Srei Infrastructure Finance, filed a draft prospectus for its IPO with the Indian market regulator on Tuesday.

Tech giant Alibaba Group Holding is taking bids for a five-tranche transaction, putting its focus on the longer end of the curve. Hopes are high for yet another impressive deal from the Chinese firm, which last stunned the market in 2014 with the largest G3 bond on record from Asia ex-Japan.

Inmobiliaria Colonial, the Spanish property company, has raised €416m to partly finance its bid for rival Axiare Patrimonio.

In what is turning out to be a busy week for block trades, shareholders in Etalon Group, one of Russia's biggest residential property developers, are tonight selling a 10% stake in the company worth $109m, in the form of London-listed GDRs.