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Oil company Shell printed a €1.75bn bond on Monday as it joined another three issuers printing almost €6bn of bonds in the European corporate investment grade market. -
Biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca hit a frenzied corporate bond market on Monday with a €2.2bn three tranche bond that contributed to around €6bn of primary supply that day.
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Agricultural Bank of China New York has returned to the offshore bond market, having started bookbuilding for a dual-tranche dollar transaction on Monday morning.
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ICBC Financial Leasing is on the road to meet investors ahead of plans to sell its first dollar bond of the year.
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Samsung Biologics, which sent out a request for proposals for its South Korean IPO on April 29, is understood to have invited nine domestic and six international firms to submit bids.
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HDFC Standard Life Insurance Co (HDFC Life) has mandated four houses to run its IPO, which will be India’s first listing by an insurance company.
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A HK$9.7bn ($1.25bn) sell-down in Chinese insurer PICC Property and Casualty Co last weekend has injected some welcome activity into Asia’s block market, which has seen limited business since the start of the year. The success of the deal in the primary and the secondary market is expected to inspire potential sellers to take action. Jonathan Breen reports.
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American International Group has raised HK$9.7bn ($1.25bn) after selling a large portion of its stake in Chinese insurer PICC Property and Casualty Co, in what is the year's biggest block trade so far in Asia.
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Samsung Biologics has sent out a request for proposals for an up to W3tr ($2.6bn) listing in South Korea, according to a source close to the situation.
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State Grid Corp of China is set to go on the road next week to gauge interest for a dual-currency bond, as it seeks to raise funds in dollars and euros.
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A flotilla of IPOs reached harbour safely this week, through waters calmed by the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing medicine, and whatever other magical ingredient has made financial professionals feel so much better since Easter. But one debutant tripped up and another IPO was pulled.
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