Morgan Stanley

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has mandated eight banks to run its $4bn loan, with invitations to be sent out to lenders soon.

Holders of $750m of Ukrainian poultry producer, MHP’s debt have refused to accept amendments to the bond which would prevent a covenant breach.

The Bank of England has printed $2bn of three year paper from a heavily oversubscribed book, as fears of a UK exit from the European Union showed no impact on the central bank’s bonds.

Senvion, the German wind turbine maker, has set the price range for its Frankfurt initial public offering at a level that implies a heavy discount to its main listed peers.

International Flavors & Fragrances was the only corporate issuer in the euro bond market on Monday as the US company made its debut offering in the currency.

Four banks from four jurisdictions got the FIG market off to a frantic start on Monday, and bankers think many more borrowers could hit screens before the European Central Bank meets on Thursday.

Hong Kong-listed Samsonite is raising a loan of up to $2.425bn for its acquisition of premium travel luggage maker Tumi.

IBM exited its entire position in Chinese tech firm Lenovo this week, raising HK$1.17bn ($150m) via a block sale. It was able to offload the stock at the top end of guidance after a flood of demand from Asian hedge funds.

John Fredriksen, the Norwegian shipping magnate, sold a Nkr4.4bn ($510m) block of shares in seafood firm Marine Harvest on Tuesday evening — a rare liquidity event in one of the few Norwegian stocks not exposed to oil.

Warburg Pincus is offloading shares in US-listed China Biologics Products via a block that could raise up to $385m.

Intercontinental Exchange, the US operator of stock exchanges and clearing houses, is considering making an offer for the London Stock Exchange, in a move that could derail the latter's merger with Deutsche Börse.

The US FIG market rebounded sharply this week as Mitsubishi UFJ Financial exploited a favourable market backdrop and printed the first TLAC eligible senior trade from a Japanese bank.