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UniCredit surprised investors with its speed when it sold a €1bn block in FinecoBank on Tuesday — the same day it announced that it would seek to reduce its stake in the online brokerage.

Russian Railways is embarking on a roadshow to market its first green bond, which DCM bankers say is the first international green bond from the country. It it entering the market despite a round of US sanctions seeming to be on the way.

Chinese e-sport streaming platform DouYu is waiting for more stable market conditions before commencing pre-marketing for its $500m IPO of American Depository Shares (ADS).

Three new high yield issues were launched into marketing in Europe on Tuesday, including a pay-if-you-can bond, even though the market was a bit weaker after President Donald Trump’s sabre-rattling about raising trade tariffs on China.

The formal separation of FinecoBank, the Italian online brokerage, from UniCredit has begun with Italy’s biggest bank selling almost half stake to institutional investors via an equity block trade – a strategy UniCredit has used numerous times in the past to shed non-core assets under its CEO Jean-Pierre Mustier.

The European Investment Bank is out with initial price thoughts on a $3bn 2024 bond, offering investors a premium to its bigger five year deal in January.

The European Stability Mechanism offered very little new issue premium on a pair of taps to wipe out its €2.5bn funding needs for the second quarter in one go.

Tencent Holdings has seen an impressive rally in the secondary market for its recently issued dollar bonds, a reflection of strong investor appetite for investment grade supply amid underwhelming issuance volumes in 2019.

General Atlantic and Index Ventures, two pre-IPO shareholders in Dutch payments firm Adyen, hit the market on Thursday night to sell a €750m block of shares in the company.

The shares of Chinese plastic surgery social network So-Young International surged on their first day trading on the Nasdaq, after the firm priced its hot IPO at the top of guidance.

China’s Zai Lab has priced a follow-on sale of 7.8m American Depository Share (ADS), its second since its listing on the Nasdaq.

US bond bankers are looking forward to a bumper May, with a slew of big ticket M&A financings set to hit the dollar market within days. Bristol-Myers Squibb announced a roadshow on Thursday for a deal that is expected to be around $21bn, to help fund its acquisition of Celgene.