Morgan Stanley

Covestro, the German polymers manufacturer, rose 11% on the start of trading Tuesday, having scaled back its targeted deal size by €1bn to win the investor support required.

Hellman & Friedman is acquiring a majority stake in the Swedish company Securitas Direct with a €2.7bn financing package involving bonds and loans.

Australia-listed gold miner Kingsgate Consolidated expects to delay the IPO of its subsidiary in Thailand due to unfavourable market conditions, even as it fends off accusations of corruption dogging its Thai unit.

ABN Amro has tapped a private 2017 floating rate line multiple times in the past few months, pushing the outstanding to near €1bn.

Datang Environment Industry Group Co, a unit of state-owned China Datang Group, is seeking to list in Hong Kong, tapping Citic CLSA Securities and Morgan Stanley as joint sponsors.

IMAX China has priced its Hong Kong IPO near the bottom of the range to raise HK$1.92bn ($247.74m), after initially guiding investors towards the middle.

World Bank

A conveyor belt of dollar benchmarks from SSAs passed quality control this week despite tough background conditions. But there are signs issuers are following those in euros by boosting concessions.

Altice, the fast-growing French cable telecoms investment group, raised €1.61bn of new capital today (Thursday October 1) with an intraday accelerated bookbuild, to finance its acquisition of Cablevision, the US cable company.

EDF has expanded its investor base into Taiwan with a $1.5bn bond, the first time a European issuer has bought a dollar bond to the Formosa market.

Kommuninvest and KfW found good demand for short dated dollar benchmarks on Thursday despite difficult market conditions.

Finnair, the unrated Finnish airline, increased the size of its hybrid capital issue today by €50m to €200m, as Nordic investors supported the credit in a turbulent week.