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The share price of Paris-listed Ingenico plummeted on Friday, even as the Cac 40 index rose, after it was reported that the firm was considering a merger with UK payment processing company Worldpay.

Portugal will become the first eurozone periphery sovereign to test the post-summer syndication market — but its choice of tenor has been limited by several weeks of turmoil in global markets.

Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel has burst back into the market shortly after a summer blackout, raising €600m with a spree of floating rate medium term notes.

NL Financial Investments, the organisation that handles the Dutch state’s shareholdings, has selected eight investment banks as bookrunners and co-lead managers for ABN Amro’s highly anticipated flotation.

Mediclinic, the South African healthcare group, achieved strong pick up on its R10bn ($770m) rights issue to fund its takeover of Cinven’s remaining stake in London-listed Spire Healthcare.

Samsung Bioepis, the pharmaceutical arm of Korea’s Samsung Group, is planning a highly-anticipated IPO on the Nasdaq in 2016, and has dished out mandates for the listing to four banks.

Additional tier one volume in Q2 2015 fell more than $20bn on the previous quarter after Greece and China-related volatility kept issuers at a distance. But as issuance resumes, analysts estimate there is plenty more to come.

The collapse of Afren, the once-proud London-listed oil exploration and production company with three bond issues to its name, is a shocking reminder of the risks investors face in emerging markets, and of how even some of the most sophisticated players in financial markets can get things drastically wrong.

An Emirati financial has mandated banks for a tier one dollar transaction, adding to the Middle East post-summer pipeline.

Poseidon Containers, the Greek shipping company, has suspended its plan to list on the New York Stock Exchange, blaming unfavourable market conditions.

Royal Bank of Scotland’s painful restructuring was rewarded by the capital markets this week as investors swarmed all over an equity block and threw $26bn at the state owned lender’s debut additional tier one bond.

UK chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne picked Monday evening to sell a much-hyped 5.4% block of shares in Royal Bank of Scotland.