Morgan Stanley

In one of the busiest days recently for Asian debt capital markets, investors gobbled up $2.2bn worth of issuance on Thursday — all from Chinese names.

Postal Savings Bank of China will raise up to HK$62.7bn ($8.1bn) via its Hong Kong IPO after setting the price range, putting it on track to be the world’s biggest listing in two years.

Yankee banks plundered the dollar market as the high-grade sector got off to a blistering start following the Labor Day holiday.

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the US medical equipment manufacturer, on Wednesday pulled in €6.6bn of orders for a €1.6bn dual tranche transaction backing its acquisition of FEI on Wednesday.

Dalian Wanda Group Corp is expected to begin gauging demand for a $600m borrowing next week that help to fund the development of a tower project in Chicago, said sources.

US-listed Chinese travel company Ctrip.com International has raised $2.2bn after pricing a convertible bond and a block of American Depositary Shares.

Fixed income investors had plenty digest on Thursday with a total of seven Chinese issuers vying for attention. The majority are eyeing dollars but two names are venturing into offshore renminbi.

US metal packaging manufacturer Crown Holdings on Thursday priced a dual currency note that will refinance its loans.

GlobalCapital announces the results of its first full scale, standalone set of Sustainable and Responsible Capital Markets Awards.

Advent International and Bain Capital this week completed their second block trade of shares in Worldpay, the UK payment services provider, since its IPO in October last year, raising £987m via an accelerated bookbuild.

China Minsheng Hong Kong International Leasing’s $200m new money loan, which is due to close by the middle of this month, has obtained commitments from three banks on top of the leads.

Sanofi entered the European corporate bond market for the second time in a year on Tuesday, using its favoured triple tranche format and printing short dated notes with a negative yield.