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The Republic of Armenia has mandated banks to arrange a dollar bond just months after its brief conflict with Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh territory. The sovereign is the latest high yielding emerging market government to tap debt markets.

Valour Real Estate and Quadreal Property, a UK and Canadian property joint venture, has signed €212m-equivalent of loans, with real estate companies making up some of the biggest borrowers in Europe so far this year.

Chinese video-sharing platform Kuaishou Technology, a rival to TikTok parent ByteDance, has started testing investor appetite for Hong Kong's largest IPO in over two years as it seeks HK$42bn ($5.42bn).

Chinese property developer Sunac China Holdings has managed to reprice its secondary curve by raising $1.1bn from tightly priced bonds.

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Mark Soriano joins Natixis — Deutsche's Frazer Ross is taking a sabbatical — Fidelity hires private credit team

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