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Malaysia’s 1MDB is understood to be suing Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan as part of an effort to recoup more than MR96.6bn ($23.5bn) in assets that it claims are linked to the state investment fund.

A smattering of European investment grade companies are lining up bond issues, as May continues to bring the turnaround in issuance levels that the market had been hoping for in the run-up to the UK bank holiday at the start of the month.

KommuneKredit made a strong return to the sterling market on Friday with its biggest ever single offering in currency.

Allied Irish Banks (AIB) sold its sophomore green bond on Monday, printing €750m of senior paper at a spread flat to fair value and close its Irish peers.

Nordea made a rare entry into the euro tier two market on Monday, taking advantage of strong issuance conditions to steer its pricing in close to fair value.

Cement company Nuvoco Vistas Corp is planning a Rp50bn ($681.5m) listing, having filed draft IPO documents with the Indian regulator.

CPPIB Capital made its debut in South African rand this week with an ‘old school MTN’ at the short end of the curve.

The Warsaw IPO of Canal+ Polska, the Polish satellite TV network, has been postponed. The deal is the latest victim of Europe's binary IPO market.

Ceconomy, a German consumer electronics company, has signed a €1.06bn revolver linked to sustainability metrics, becoming the latest corporate to repay state support loans taken out during the worst of the coronavirus pandemic.

Three regular dollar bond issuers from China were the first out of the gates to tap investors on Thursday following a long holiday in the Mainland.

BOC Aviation has raised $250m from a tap of bonds sold just last month, finding solid support from US investors for its comeback.

Green bonds took centre stage in the US corporate bond market this week, as issuance began to mount again after the recess for earnings blackouts. No less than three deals paired green and conventional tranches.