Morgan Stanley

Investors poured into Belgium’s debut 50 year benchmark vintage this week, with demand so strong that bankers are confident other issuers could soon sip liquidity from the ultra-long tenor.

Belgium cracked open its 50 year bond vintage on Thursday with a deal that drew plenty of praise — while the level of demand even surprised some of those working on the trade.

BOC Aviation started gauging investor appetite this week for its $2bn IPO in Hong Kong, with books set to open in mid-May.

Seadrill has sold the remainder of its stake in SapuraKencana Petroleum via a MR774.72m ($198.35m) accelerated share sale, putting to bed a deal that failed to clear only three weeks ago.

Belgium is set to bring a private dabbling in ultra-long debt issuance into the public sphere, as it mandated on Wednesday for a debut 50 year euro benchmark a week after placing its second 100 year medium term note.

UBI Banca became the first Italian lender to print tier two capital this year on Wednesday, laying the foundations for more periphery capital to follow.

Seadrill is in the market to sell an up to MR814m ($208m) block of shares in Malaysia’s SapuraKencana Petroleum via sole global co-ordinator and bookrunner Morgan Stanley.

South Korea’s Kakao Corp has broken a drought in Asia’s equity-linked market by printing a W230bn ($199.9m) exchangeable bond on Monday, with the deal denominated in won but settled in dollars.

A long-time investor in Nexteer Automotive Group raised HK$559.8m ($72.2m) from an accelerated share sale on Monday, in what has been an eerily quiet market for block trades in Hong Kong.

Alibaba Group Holdings has wound up its latest five year bullet at an increased size of $4bn after attracting robust demand during general syndication.

Numis Securities’ bold block trade in Saga shares on Thursday night has catapulted it into the top 10 in Dealogic’s equity capital markets league table for 2016.

Norwegian Air Shuttle (NAS), the low-cost airline, could become the first Nordic borrower to issue this year in the European high yield bond market.