Morgan Stanley

Best, a logistics firm backed by Alibaba, started pre-marketing its $1bn IPO on the New York Stock Exchange this week, as a clutch of Chinese issuers also filed listing applications in the US.

Hong Kong-listed China Silver Group is looking to spin off its online jewellery arm CSMall Group through a listing on the city’s bourse.

Supply-starved investors have been quick to get involved in the first senior bond transactions in euros in nearly a month, with banks leaping back into the market this week following the summer holidays.

Former Barclays banker Hardik Dalal started in a newly created executive director position at MUFG Securities Asia on Monday.

China Great Wall Asset Management stumbled into secondary trading late on Friday after its new dollar deal hit delays due to confusion over coupon payment dates.

Royal Dynasty International Holding Co, a leading Chinese restaurant chain manager which counts Morgan Stanley among its largest shareholders, is planning to list in Hong Kong.

Korea’s Kookmin Bank is eyeing a return to the dollar bond market, meeting with investors this week to gauge interest in a senior deal.

The UK Debt Management Office has selected the banks that will run its next syndication.

MUFG said on Thursday that it had hired former HSBC banker Jeff Bennett as head of leveraged corporate origination and structuring, part of the bank’s longer term expansion of its leveraged finance and investment banking businesses in EMEA.

Six corporate investment grade borrowers took home a combined $3.75bn as the US dollar market finally took a breather for the summer after the breakneck pace of issuance for the month so far.

Two deals were priced this week in the European corporate bond market, and next week already looks busier. With a roadshow under way and four others coming up, the window before September’s European Central Bank meeting looks full.

Dongfeng Peugeot Citroën Auto Finance sealed a single tranche Rmb3bn ($451m) ABS deal on August 22, just five days after Bond Connect investors tapped the asset class for the first time. But the originator showed little interest in seducing the newcomers and stuck with the local investor base instead.