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Spanish telecommunications infrastructure company Cellnex has finished its €4bn rights issue to fund further M&A opportunities, with an extremely high oversubscription.

Soaring demand and tight spreads lured repeat borrowers as summer dollar bond supply soared with $34bn of new issuance crammed into four days.

Ke Holdings sealed a $2.12bn IPO on the New York Stock Exchange this week, the largest US listing by a Chinese firm in more than two years, defying the shock caused by US sanctions against one of its largest shareholders, Tencent Holdings. Jonathan Breen reports.

Hong Kong rail operator MTR Corp priced a larger and tighter green bond than expected this week, with investors showing their faith in a company that has been forced to battle protests and the pandemic in the past year. Morgan Davis reports.

OneConnect Financial Technology Co, a Chinese technology-as-a-service platform, raised $324m this week from a larger than expected follow-on offering of its US-listed stock.

India's placements market is heating up, with new issuers set to raise fresh equity.

Wayfair, the US e-commerce company that sells home office furniture, has raised $1.32bn with the sale of a new convertible bond, after a surge in its stock price during the Covid-19 pandemic.

KKR, the US private equity group, has sold a $1bn mandatory convertible bond to fund its acquisition of life insurer Global Atlantic Financial Group, which it announced last month.

Hong Kong-based Li & Fung used a coupon step-up in case of a rating downgrade to attract investors to its $300m bond on Tuesday, as it gears up for a big hit to its business this year as a result of Covid-19.

US-listed OneConnect Financial Technology Co, a Chinese company whose stock price has doubled this year, is tapping equity investors for new funds.

Ke Holdings, which operates Chinese real estate platform Beike, is set to close the orderbook for its $2bn US listing a day earlier than planned, according to a source close to the deal.

FIG deal arrangers say the euro market could reopen for business as early as next week, with more investors set to return from their holidays.