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The Republic of Croatia released initial price guidance for a 10 year bond on Wednesday morning and books for the deal are already in excess of €1.3bn.

Two Chinese online platform businesses will start pre-deal investor education for their Hong Kong IPOs on Thursday, according to bankers.

DS Smith, the UK packaging company, has offered to buy Spanish rival Europac, with £1.65bn of financing underwritten by US banks already prepared for the transaction.

The IPO of Adyen, the Dutch payments company, which is one of the most anticipated listings in Europe this year, has got off to a good start, with the book covered throughout the range just over an hour after being opened.

Marc Lewell is returning to London after three years running JP Morgan’s Asia-Pacific syndicate, prompting the appointment of a new head of the desk.

Swiss telecommunications group Salt Mobile was this week looking to replace most of its debt capital structure with Sfr2.085bn-equivalent (€1.8bn) of new bonds that have weaker covenants, as the high yield market overcomes a recent bout of eurozone volatility.

Genscript Biotech Corp, a leading life sciences service provider and drug developer, has raised HK$2.39bn ($304m) after upsizing a follow-on offering, according to a source close to the deal.

China-based VCredit Holdings, which provides online consumer finance, launched bookbuilding for its IPO on Tuesday, with proceeds of up to HK$1.58bn ($201m) in reach.

The UK government has resumed the reprivatisation of RBS, the British bank that was nationalised during the financial crisis, having launched a £2.6bn block trade.

African debut issuer Vivo Energy was the only borrower from CEEMEA to make an official mandate announcement this week after sustained weakness in global markets kept seven others on the sidelines, but EM bankers are not predicting sustained periods of stability will return.

Huifu Payment launched a HK$1.9bn ($244.1m) IPO in Hong Kong on Thursday, using Silicon Valley stalwarts Square and PayPal as benchmarks for valuations.

Equity investors swooped on a W1.32tr ($1.22bn) sell-down in Samsung Electronics on Wednesday. They took advantage of a share price slide just ahead of the launch of what was South Korea's largest accelerated bookbuild since 2011. Jonathan Breen reports.