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Volkswagen Leasing was the sole issuer to tap the euro market on Monday, brushing off any fears about investor engagement in August by gathering an almost four times subscribed book for a €1.5bn print.

UK chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne picked Monday evening to sell a much-hyped 5.4% block of shares in Royal Bank of Scotland.

Bluefield European Solar Fund, perhaps the last prospective issuer on Europe’s IPO market in this otherwise barren summer season, postponed its flotation on Friday, July 31, blaming “unfavourable market conditions”.

Despite a flying start to bookbuilding, the HK$11bn ($1.4bn) IPO of China Railway Signal & Communication Corp (CRSC) in Hong Kong eventually succumbed to the turmoil in China’s stock market, forcing it to price at the bottom of the range on August 1.

Former Morgan Stanley banker Dave Sandor has been hired by Goldman Sachs as an executive director for equity-linked, filling a vacancy that has existed for some time.

Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, the Florence based banking foundation, sold a chunk of Intesa Sanpaolo shares on Tuesday in a block trade managed by Goldman Sachs.

Belgian and German medical diagnostics provider Amedes bought some investors who had initially declined the €525m loan back into the fold this week as deal supply fell.

The UK government’s £2bn sale of a first chunk of the 79% stake it holds in Royal Bank of Scotland has dominated equity capital market headlines so far this week.

French home equipment retailer BUT SAS on Tuesday offered a €66m add-on of its €180m secured notes suggesting it is studying the acquisition of a franchisee network.

German cable company Tele Columbus is allocating a €435m leveraged loan that backs its acquisition of rival Primacom, setting outs its ambitions for consolidation in the sector.

KfW has visited the syndicated market with in bond in an unconventional tenor on a Friday — typically a quiet day for deals — for the second week in a row.

Deutsche Boerse revived the euro hybrid market on Thursday, selling the first such deal in the currency in three months and gathering a hefty order book in the process.