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Bank of China’s aircraft leasing arm, BOC Aviation, priced a $200m tap of its outstanding 10 year bonds on Tuesday through where bonds were quoted in secondary markets.

Wind Tre, the Italian telecoms company, issued its €7.3bn senior secured bond deal on Tuesday, a day ahead of schedule, and priced all four tranches at the tight end of guidance.

The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) brought its long awaited inaugural dollar transaction to market on Tuesday during a period of feverish activity in a dollar market that is “going from strength to strength”, according to one SSA banker.

If Qatar does go ahead with a bond, it needs to be the one being selective about which banks it will work with.

China Huaneng Group, one of the country’s biggest state-owned electric utility enterprises, priced a $500m senior perpetual bond on Monday. Execution was smooth thanks to the company’s status as a central state-owned enterprise (SOE) and its market position, but time is needed for it to perform in secondary.

HSBC has taken two veteran bankers from rival firms to drive its combined strategic equity financing and equity-linked businesses in London and Hong Kong.

HSBC has appointed a new chief executive for HSBC India, effective December 1.

CapitaLand Commercial Trust (CCT) has raised S$700m ($514.7m) from a rights issue after a flood of excess applications pushed the deal to nearly twice subscribed.

Falabella, the Chilean retail company, raised $400m of new debt in a 5.5 times subscribed deal on Monday, as bond bankers say the party in Lat Am bond markets is set to continue.

BOC Aviation is looking to add to its September 2027s, a month after the aircraft leasing company sold the initial $500m deal.

Has Europe’s corporate bond market ever been hotter than today? Perhaps, but Monday’s four investment grade deals totalling €7.4bn offered ample evidence of extraordinary demand — not least, what is believed to be the most tightly priced corporate hybrid capital issue ever, for Danone.

One of the biggest IPOs in London this year was revealed on Monday when Arqiva, the UK’s largest operator of TV and radio broadcast towers, launched an IPO with a projected valuation of about £5.5bn.