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Two FIG names were among the seven issuers vying for funds on Thursday with Bank of East Asia and Sirius International both pricing new trades. And the hectic schedule of the last few weeks is unlikely to slow down in November.

Samsung BioLogics Co has priced its IPO at the top on the back of a surge in chunky orders, raising W2.25tr ($2.0bn) in South Korea's largest float since 2010.

Amid rough going for new IPOs this week, one of this year’s star IPO performers, Maisons du Monde, was back in the market on Wednesday night as the global coordinators waived the lock-up to let the leading shareholders make their first block trade in the stock. Thursday brought a substantial trade in Ferrexpo, which owns iron mines in Ukraine, which got done, though at a slightly reduced size.

Pub group Enterprise Inns on Monday and mortgage lender Together on Wednesday launched their new sterling offerings amid growing instability in the market after Daisy, the UK telecom services supplier, pulled its deal last Friday.

Investors showed signs of wilting under the torrent of callable bond structures as BNY Mellon, Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo continued the rush by US banks to print bonds aimed at cutting the cost of complying with Total Loss Absorbing Capacity (TLAC) rules.

The IPO of Misys, the UK banking software producer, was pulled on Thursday morning despite the books being covered at the base size, in another demonstration of the sour mood that has gripped the new issue market since the Nets IPO and the Conservative Party conference.

The wrecking of the autumn IPO calendar got worse this week as Misys, the UK banking software company, pulled its IPO, though ConvaTec managed to raise £1.7bn and Ahlsell Skr6bn. Surprisingly, writes Aidan Gregory, further companies are still coming forward with IPO plans.

Liberty Global-owned Belgian telecoms firm Telenet launched a €500m eight year term loan ‘B’ on Thursday as it looks to take advantage of propitious issuer conditions to refinance existing debt.

SNCF Réseau, the French rail provider, made its green bond debut on Thursday, becoming the first railway agency in the eurozone to access the green market.

Jacobs Douwe Egberts rode the market repricing wave emphatically this week, increasing its new loan offering to €1.3bn and cutting margins on existing loans to just 225bp.

Chinese logistics company ZTO Express priced its $1.4bn IPO on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, marking the largest float from a Mainland firm in the US since 2014. And its successful listing is expected to boost the number of Chinese firms heading to the United States, writes Jonathan Breen.

Eurofima, Inter-American Development Bank and International Finance Corporation tapped their 10 year Kangaroo lines this week, raising a total A$180m ($136.8m), as Asian investors looked for yield from the Aussie market.