Morgan Stanley

ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance Co has raised HK$11.9bn ($1.5bn) after pricing its hugely popular Hong Kong IPO at the top of guidance, according to a banker on the deal.

Chinese online retailer of luxury goods Secoo Holding priced its $110.5m listing of American Depository Shares on Thursday, finding favour among investors thanks to an attractive discount.

Autostrade per l’Italia, the Italian toll road operator, on Monday printed a €700m 12 year deal to finance a tender offer for up to €650m shorter dated bonds.

Stada Arzneimittel, the German pharmaceuticals firm being bought in a €5.3bn deal by Bain Capital and Cinven, opened a bond roadshow on Monday after marketing €2bn of leveraged loans last week .

The UK water and waste company Pennon, which owns South West Water and Viridor, got an overwhelming response to its £300m hybrid offering on Monday. Investors clearly signalled their approval of the unrated company’s growth strategy.

Emerging market loan bankers may have to look to the private sector for deals as sovereign entities in the Middle East take a step back from the loan market.

The strength of the demand for equity block trades in Europe was highlighted once again on Wednesday evening by Telenor when it covered an effective cleanup trade in Veon, the New York-listed Russian telecoms company formerly known as VimpleCom, in half an hour.

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ cleaned up its position in CIMB Group this week, offloading more than 400m shares in an accelerated bookbuild to raise MR2.55bn ($607m).

Chinese logistics firm Best, which counts Alibaba Group Holdings among its shareholders, raised $450m from its US IPO this week, chopping the deal by half to get it over the finish line.

Postal Savings Bank of China Co launched its highly anticipated additional tier one dollar bond on Thursday, seeking a whopping $7bn from what could be the world’s largest AT1.

Chinese investors warmly welcomed Mercedes-Benz Auto Finance’s second outing this year in China’s securitization market, helping the originator raise Rmb4.98bn ($760m) from the senior tranche of its deal.

Singapore power company SP PowerAssets grabbed $600m on Tuesday from a tightly priced investment grade bond that reset its debt curve.