Morgan Stanley

Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten and KfW came together in the same currency and tenor on Tuesday, with both issuers able to find healthy demand.

Morgan Stanley might have gone further than the other big US banks in cutting fixed income, but a rocky bond market still weighed hard on its third quarter numbers. Advisory revenues, however, swelled on the back of a booming M&A market.

Assicurazioni Generali SpA brought made periphery central on Tuesday, taking advantage of an otherwise empty session to secure strong demand for its tier two paper.

Teva, the Israeli pharmaceutical company, will hold a meeting with banks on Wednesday for the syndication of $33.75bn of loans it is using to buy generic drug business Allergan Generics.

Croatian state-owned power company Hrvatska Electroprivreda (Hep) has bought back over 80% of its debut dollar deal, and on Monday morning opened books on a new transaction to fund the purchase.

Coffee Day Enterprises has priced its Rp11.94bn ($183m) IPO at the top end of guidance, finding more than enough demand from investors. The deal’s success, particularly thanks to interest from institutional accounts, has paved the way for the next big Indian listing as InterGlobe Aviation gets ready to take off.

China’s BeiGene is eyeing a listing on the Nasdaq, with the drug maker tapping three banks for a $100m IPO.

Bravida, the Swedish electrical, heating, plumbing and ventilation systems installer, started trading today (Friday), after having priced its initial public offering at the midpoint of its original price range.

South Korean game developer Nexon has sold all of its shares in rival company NCSOFT Corp for W605.1bn ($536m), ending a three-year relationship that failed to create any “significant synergies” between the companies.

Garfunkelux, the German debt collection company, on Thursday issued £795m of notes in the first sizeable European high yield issue for three weeks. Market participants are now eager to see if other issuers finally follow in its steps.

Bank of Ireland and Caja Rural Unidas issued this week’s only two covered bonds from Europe’s periphery, both offering attractive concessions.

The fourth quarter yielded its first great equity capital markets success this week, as Worldpay, the UK payments processer, completed the largest listing in London since Glencore’s in 2011. Olivier Holmey reports.