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FMO is set to raise a minimum of Skr500m ($54.25m) with a seven year sustainability bond on Tuesday, while KfW plans to bring a dollar green bond.

Agence Française de Développement on Monday mandated banks for what is set to be the first euro benchmark from a public sector borrower in nearly a month.

MédiPôle Partenaires, the French private hospital group, has abandoned plans for an IPO after sponsor Bridgepoint decided to sell it to its competitor Elsan, owned by CVC, instead.

Chinese biopharmaceutical company BeiGene has net $200m from a follow-on public offering of American Depositary Shares (ADSs).

Morgan Stanley led a trio of banks tapping the dollar market this week across the capital structure and exploiting the post-election spread tightening in the sector.

The bounce in international equities since the election of Donald Trump as US president has led, as widely expected by market participants, to a wave of block trades this week, some of which were covered very quickly.

Intercontinental Exchange has added Goldman Sachs as the third clearing member of its ICE Clear Netherlands subsidiary.

There’s a price to pay for market uncertainty, as Asian dollar bond issuers found out this week. While some had to offer hefty premiums to entice investors, Country Garden was forced to pull its deal on Wednesday following lukewarm demand. As investors turn cautious, market participants say that short-dated paper and juicy yields will be key for the next few weeks. Morgan Davis reports.

Bayer successfully pulled off what was arguably this year’s biggest European ECM deal on Tuesday night, with a €4bn mandatory convertible and €1.5bn delta equity placement. But although both were fully sold and have traded stably, a good number of deal-playing investors are still putting in small orders.

A former executive director at Goldman Sachs, with over 20 years' experience in the loan market, has become the head of corporate finance at Doha Bank in Qatar.

Bayer, the German life sciences group, picked Tuesday night to launch the first part of its $19bn equity financing for its $66bn takeover of Monsanto. Bayer's deal comes as equity markets are revitalised by the new conviction that Western policy is shifting to reflation.

Country Garden Holdings launched a 10 put five dollar deal on Wednesday, marking its second transaction in less than two months, while Fosun International is pursuing a tap of its $300m 2023s.