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The Province of Quebec came “significantly” through fair value in its $1bn five year trade on Tuesday, as the issuer was able to take advantage of rarity in both its own name and SSA dollar issuance.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has extended the maturity of its €6.25bn syndicated bank facility, as loan market activity picks up at the beginning of the second quarter.

Medacta, the Swiss maker of orthopaedic devices, has covered its Sfr550m IPO within the revised price range on the penultimate day of the bookbuild, according to a banker involved in the deal.

Broor Spahr van der Hoek is joining Arma Partners, leaving his role at JP Morgan as head of private placements and growth capital business for clients in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The advisory boutique wants to develop its private capital offering as a complement to M&A services; it sees this form of financing as an increasingly relevant option for firms before they go public or are bought up.

Nasdaq-listed Chinese streaming platform Bilibili has opened books for a concurrent convertible bond and placement of American Depository Shares, eyeing combined proceeds of up to $614m.

Chinese real estate companies Kaisa Group Holdings, Jingrui Holdings and China SCE Group Holdings came to the market on Monday after announcing strong financial results for 2018 last week, raising $900m between them.

Singapore agricultural commodity company Olam International and its wholly owned subsidiary Olam Treasury have raised the firm's first loan where its funding costs are linked to the digitisation of the company.

Eager demand for hybrid capital issues, amid an environment of low rates, was on show again on Monday, when LafargeHolcim issued its first big deal of this kind. The pricing was tightened by an exceptional amount during the bookbuild — 69bp.

The dollar market is expected to provide just a handful of deals this week, with a benchmark for the Province of Quebec and a short dated floater for Eurofima up first.

Man Group has plucked an investment director from GAM to head up its European private debt business, and lead Man GPM's commercial and real estate debt team.

Adevinta, the online classified advertising division of Norwegian media group Schibsted, has set the price range for its IPO on the Oslo Børs, which may value the company at up to Nkr55.8bn (€5.8bn) if the deal is priced at the top of the range.

Saudi Aramco has published a bond programme prospectus and received its first credit ratings as it goes on the road to promote its first international capital markets transaction, which is expected to come to market this week.