Morgan Stanley

China Overseas Grand Oceans Group (Cogo) is taking the rights issue route to pay off debt, proposing to raise HK$4.7bn ($595.9m) from shareholders.

Redco Properties Group has jumped on the short-dated bond trend, launching a 364-day dollar deal on Wednesday.

Public sector borrowers have crammed more dollar deals into Tuesday than are sometimes seen in a week. But far from suffering from too much choice, investors gobbled up everything on offer — and bankers expect them to do just the same for two deals on Wednesday’s menu.

Investors looking forward to the prospect of a jumbo Nordic banking IPO were disappointed on Tuesday when Nykredit, the biggest mortgage lender in Denmark, announced that it plans to cancel its IPO on Nasdaq Copenhagen in favour of a private sale to five Danish pension funds.

The UK Debt Management Office has broken its record book size yet again and brought in a new high of 144 investors with a deal that leads called a “rousing success”.

In a new sign of how hot Europe's leveraged finance market has become, Verisure, the Swedish security systems company, is seeking to raise €3.5bn of bonds and loans, partly to fund the market's biggest dividend recapitalisation this year.

On Tuesday, Spanish infrastructure operator Ferrovial tapped into demand for the enhanced yield offered by hybrid bonds and matched the second lowest coupon ever on such an instrument.

Inflatable pool manufacturer Bestway Global Holding is on track to raise up to HK$1.5bn ($196.6m) from its IPO, drawing in a mix of international and Chinese investors to cover its deal multiple times over, according to a source close to the deal.

HDFC Standard Life Insurance Co got off to a flying start with its Rp86.9bn ($1.3bn) IPO in India, as books opened on Tuesday following a hugely successful anchor investor process.

Chinese local government financing vehicle Yunnan Provincial Energy Investment Group Co and real estate developer KWG Property Holding are taking bids for their respective dollar bonds on Tuesday.

Rentenbank will tap a resurgent long end dollar market on Tuesday, alongside a rare appearance in the currency from the Canadian sovereign in fives and a French agency in threes. This is only the second time in nearly two and a half years that issuers have peppered the whole of the dollar curve on the same day.

Four Seasons Education is closing books two days early on its $111m New York Stock Exchange listing, said a banker managing the transaction.