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China’s Zhongyu Gas Holdings has launched a $300m refinancing loan into general syndication.

Online game developer NetEase has begun bookbuilding for its long-awaited Hong Kong secondary offering. The company is aiming to raise around HK$21.6bn ($2.8bn).

China Construction Bank International has repaid, ahead of schedule, a $1bn loan maturing in July 2021.

Geely Automobile Holdings has tapped the equity market for the first time for 11 years, raising HK$6.48bn ($836m) from an overnight share sale.

Neoen, the French solar and wind energy producer, has issued the first green convertible bond in Europe — and investors’ eager reception of the deal suggests these instruments could be as popular in the equity-linked market as they have become in the straight bond market.

HSBC Holdings is the latest European financial institution to have looked at launching a new deal for the minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL) while simultaneously announcing tender offers on existing bonds.

Corporate bond investors piled into the three environmental, social and governance trades on screens this week, as bankers said the focus in the high grade market is shifting from crisis mode back to socially responsible debt.

France impressed as it received a record €51bn order book and paid a small new issue premium with its first syndication since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The sovereign was joined in the long end of the curve this week by two sub-sovereign borrowers as investor appetite for duration grows, with more supply expected to follow.

European insurance companies were busy raising capital in every major currency this week, as they showed they were not willing to let a strong issuance window pass by them amid Covid-19.

The Belgian region of Wallonne took advantage of the growing demand in the long end of the curve to sell its first social bond on Thursday, although it had to pay a chunky new issue premium to do so. Elsewhere, Bpifrance received plenty of demand to print €1.25bn with a 10 year trade.

BASF and Pearson brought green and social bonds on Thursday, as sustainability-linked issuance continues to pull Europe’s high grade corporate market out of the darkest days of the coronavirus pandemic’s panic funding phase.

Shares in IWG, the London-listed operator of serviced offices and co-working spaces, rose by 15% on Thursday after the company successfully tapped investors for £315m to fund growth once the Covid-19 global pandemic subsides.