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Wind Tre, the Italian telecoms company, issued its €7.3bn senior secured bond deal on Tuesday, a day ahead of schedule, and priced all four tranches at the tight end of guidance.

A new bond refinancing deal for German fashion company Takko will provide a welcome boost to triple-C bond volumes, although it is not clear whether the deal will pave the way for a wave of risky credits to return to the high yield market, bankers said.

Shares in Bawag, the Austrian banking group, closed below their offer price on Wednesday after the company priced its €1.68bn IPO at €48 a share, near the bottom of the initial €47 to €52 range.

One of the biggest IPOs in London this year was revealed on Monday when Arqiva, the UK’s largest operator of TV and radio broadcast towers, launched an IPO with a projected valuation of about £5.5bn.

Another long-awaited IPO kicked off on Monday when Emaar Properties, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) real estate company, launched the spin-off of its flagship property development business, albeit with a smaller deal size than initially expected.

Market participants are divided over the importance of having total return swaps (TRS) for the additional tier one (AT1) market, after investment banks started offering the contracts earlier this month.

Sea can lay claim to being one of this year’s most well-participated IPOs by an Asian issuer, after more than 500 investors piled into its New York Stock Exchange flotation.

Jianpu Technology has filed for a $200m listing of American Depositary Shares, tapping three bulge bracket banks as underwriters. Hong Kong-based iClick Interactive Asia Group, meanwhile, is eyeing $100m.

Aroundtown, the German commercial property company, raised €450m of growth capital on Thursday night in a share sale led by Goldman Sachs, Berenberg and Deutsche Bank.

Cabot Credit Management, the biggest debt collector in the UK, launched its highly anticipated IPO on Friday, adding its name to the already vibrant list of companies preparing to go public in London this autumn.

Expectations for third quarter earnings at Europe’s investment banks have taken a knock, following a disappointing round of US bank earnings that saw trading performance remain muted. European banks may also be losing market share in trading, and any poor performance will be compounded by the strong euro.

With asset prices inflated to levels that would have seemed impossible a few years ago, capital market participants are looking forward to the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) eventual exit from its quantitative easing (QE) programme with a mix of hope and dread, writes Lewis McLellan.