Morgan Stanley

Tencent-backed China Literature has closed books on its red-hot HK$8.3bn ($1.1bn) Hong Kong IPO a day earlier than planned, although there was no firm price guidance from the lead banks.

Ronshine China Holdings has raised HK$1.2bn ($155.6m) after a selling a chunk of shares through a top-up placement, according to a filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Monday morning.

Sogou, the internet search arm of US-listed Sohu.com, has kicked off bookbuilding for a $585m IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.

Bankers working on the Frankfurt IPO of HelloFresh, the German meal kit delivery company backed by Rocket Internet, have revised the price range to €10.25 to €11.50, the upper half of the €9 to €11.50 initial range.

Crystal International Group raised HK$3.8bn ($489.5m) with its Hong Kong IPO after pricing the shares near the wide end of terms on Thursday.

HDFC Standard Life Insurance Co has announced a price range for its IPO, which could raise up to Rp86.9bn ($1.3bn) for its two biggest shareholders.

China Huarong Asset Management Co is gearing up a return to the offshore bond market for the third time this year. The mandate came right as China completed its first international bond in over a decade achieving a oversubscription of over 10 times.

Wind Tre, the Italian telecoms group, delivered Europe's largest ever high yield bond issue this week, a €7.3bn deal that has raised the bar for the market and led to expectations that more sponsors will follow suit amid heady investor demand.

While Verizon and Danone amassed combined order books totalling more than €22.5bn on Monday, US consumer goods company Procter & Gamble returned to the euro market somewhat under the radar for its first deal in the currency in two years.

Corporate borrowers dashed to print as investment grade spreads maintained their record levels ahead of a sell-off in US Treasuries, as speculation grew that US president Donald Trump would appoint a policy hawk to replace Janet Yellen as Fed chief.

After a stream of successful repricings in the leveraged loan market this week, French call centre operator Webhelp is set to refinance its term loans for the second time this year and could shave a further 25bp off its financing costs, according to sources.

Industrial & Financial Systems (IFS) closed the loan funding for its acquisition of WorkWave without further syndication on Wednesday, evidence the market is still keen on small size offerings amid a raft of large deals.