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Zurich Insurance Company attracted plenty of demand in dollars on Tuesday, as it sold first subordinated dollar trade in over two years — a deal that could fund its acquisition of Metropolitan Life’s US property and casual business.

Apollo Global Management has continued to selldown its stake in Watches of Switzerland, the UK luxury watch retailer, following a strong rally in the stock since its IPO on the London Stock Exchange in May 2019.

Beijing Capital Group Co, which marketed a two-tranche deal on Monday, decided to ditch the planned perpetual note and instead price a larger senior tranche for cost reasons.

Vietnam’s Masan Group Corp is inviting lenders to join an up to $250m loan to support an investment into one of its subsidiaries.

Vingroup Joint Stock Co has launched an up to $400m loan to the market.

Russia’s Sovcombank has entered the ESG loan market for the first time, raising a $350m syndicated loan. An increasing number of Russian corporates are turning to the green financing sector as a way to diversify funding.

Aroundtown, the Frankfurt-listed property company, opened 2021’s corporate hybrid capital issuance on Monday. More subordinated deals are already being lined up.

Fundamentals are becoming more important again in Europe’s corporate bond primary market, but the power of the European Central Bank technical trade in the secondary market is quickly washing away any new issue concessions issuers have to give.

A burst of mandates on Monday confirmed what many market participants had expected: a rise in emerging market corporate bond supply.

LBBW and Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel (BFCM) were met with muted demand on Monday morning as the pair ventured into a busier, yet weaker market in search of senior non-preferred debt.

Indonesian garment company Pan Brothers has been downgraded by Fitch Ratings for the third time in the past three months as a result of refinancing pressure.

Shareholders in HSBC have filed a motion calling on it to live up to its reputation for sustainable finance by setting targets to reduce fossil fuel financing — an area where investors argue HSBC lags behind some of its rivals.