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Deutsche Bank is at real risk of failing to pay coupons on its additional tier one instruments, as a potential $14bn US RMBS settlement threatens to erase the bank's available distributable items (ADIs). Outstanding DB AT1 securities reacted accordingly last Friday, shooting nearly 200bp wider.

Telenor sold $1.5bn of shares in VimpelCom, the Russian telecoms company, this week, in a combined equity placing and exchangeable bond that were well received, despite the Uzbek bribery scandal that engulfed both companies last year.

Bayer clinched a $66bn agreement to buy Monsanto this week, forming a global leader in farming technology and promising a shower of capital markets transactions that will test debt and equity markets — but may also delight them.

The grins on the faces of Werner Baumann and Hugh Grant, chief executives of Bayer and Monsanto, look genuine enough. The deal they have struck could catapult Baumann to head of the world’s leading agribusiness company and net Grant a reported $226m.

Shares in Informa, the UK publishing and events company, closed 6% higher on Thursday after it launched a fully underwritten £715m rights issue to partially finance its £1.18bn takeover of Penton, the New York-based information services and business-to-business publisher, in a transatlantic deal which the company says will expand its reach in the global exhibitions industry.

Postal Savings Bank of China and its potential HK$62.7bn ($8.1bn) IPO got off to a roaring start due to hedge fund demand. Oversubscribed on day one, it is on track to be the world’s largest IPO in two years. But an order book so far dominated by regional names is about to get a lot more global as management leaves Hong Kong for roadshows in the UK and US. Jonathan Breen reports.

Bayer, the German life sciences company, has clinched an agreement with the board of Monsanto to buy the US company for an enterprise value of $66bn, to be financed with one of the largest rights issues in history.

National Grid Gas followed its £3bn Tuesday visit to the sterling market with a €750m eight year bond that completes its primary bond market financing ahead of its 2017 sale.

Italian oil and gas company Eni jostled with four other issuers on one of the European corporate bond market's busiest days of the year as it issued a dual tranche offering on Tuesday.

Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten printed $1.5bn of two year paper on Tuesday in a move which finishes off its benchmark activity for the year.

Postal Savings Bank of China has started taking orders for a Hong Kong IPO that could be worth HK$62.7bn ($8.1bn). Set to be the world’s largest float in two years, the deal is going to add about $130m in fees to the underwriters’ coffers.

Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten has kicked the week off with a long dated tap in euros and a mandate for a follow-up two year dollar benchmark, which will share Tuesday's market with two other dollar trades.