Morgan Stanley

Ghana became the first Sub-Saharan African sovereign to access the bond market this year on Tuesday, printing tranches of dollar paper on Tuesday and receiving one of the largest order books ever for a bond from the region.

Vakifbank will be the next borrower to join the growing list of Turkish credits returning to the bond market after the nation’s currency crisis in 2018.

India’s largest telecommunications service provider Vodafone Idea has set the price for its Rp250bn ($3.6bn) rights issue, enticing shareholders with a discount of more than 60% to its latest trading price.

GlobalCapital announced the winners of its 2018 Equity Capital Markets Awards at our annual Awards dinner in London on Tuesday night. Adyen, Knorr-Bremse, Netcompany and Neoen were among the deals that won prizes as company founders, CFOs and senior managers mingled with leading investment bankers.

The European corporate bond market’s charmed life continued on Tuesday, as if the intensifying crisis of Brexit was just a dream. Two triple-B issuers and one single-A all found the same deep demand that has greeted every deal for the past few weeks.

The Republic of Benin has opened books for its debut bond — a six year euro amortiser. Ghana is also expected to enter the market on Tuesday, following a roadshow to promote a dollar bond.

Telstra, Australia’s national telecoms company, returned to one of its most important funding markets, euro bonds, on Monday, with a smallish benchmark deal that joined the remarkable wave of deals that have achieved negative new issue premiums.

Embassy Office Parks Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) has launched a three-day public bookbuilding for its IPO after placing nearly half of the public offer with anchor investors.

Mongolian Mining Corp announced on Monday March 18 a tender offer for its two existing dollar bonds, alongside the proposed issuance of new notes.

The management of vaccine developer CanSino Biologics has hit the road to market its IPO of up to HK$1.26bn ($161m).

Chinese online education company Koolearn Technology Holdings has launched a HK$1.83bn ($232.6m) IPO, nearly five months after it began pre-marketing.

India’s equity capital market is on edge as Embassy Office Parks Real Estate Investment Trust prepares the country’s first Reit IPO. But while the hotly-anticipated listing has global institutional investors chomping at the bit, the deal may be a one-off treat as the issuer has very few peers.