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The State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the International Finance Facility for Immunisation attracted impressive demand in the dollar market on Wednesday, allowing them to print big deals in the currency.

Vingroup Joint Stock Company raised $500m from an exchangeable bond this week, selling the largest equity-linked transaction from Vietnam — and developing the market by using novel structural features never seen before in the country. Rashmi Kumar reports.

Rabobank sold the first euro additional tier one (AT1) bond in almost six weeks on Tuesday, landing the deal at a record low coupon in euros for the format.

Swiss pharmaceutical ingredients manufacturing company PolyPeptide Group has filed for an IPO on the SIX Swiss Exchange, which is expected to value the company at around €1.5bn equivalent to €1.7bn equivalent, according to a source close to the deal.

Deutsche Telekom dialled in to the Aussie dollar market after an almost two year absence this week, extending its curve to 2041.

BlackRock has signed a $4.4bn revolving credit agreement linked to gender and racial diversity metrics, becoming one of the most prominent companies globally to use key performance indicators focused on staff equality in its main bank line.

Investors put in a staggering $60bn of orders for an accelerated offering of Tencent Holdings’ stock on Wednesday, a deal that saw Dutch internet company Prosus taking home HK$114.17bn ($14.67bn) from a record-breaking overnight share sale. Jonathan Breen reports.

Dutch internet company Prosus is looking to pocket up to HK$114.17bn ($14.67bn) from an accelerated sale of shares in Tencent Holdings.

Borrowers packed deals into the US corporate bond market this week before the Easter holiday weekend. Among them, BMW enjoyed a strong order book for its first dollar issue for a year.

A seemingly endless supply of real estate companies coming to the high grade bond market continued this week, with Deutsche Wohnen and debut deals from Canary Wharf and VGP giving investors another chance to load up on the sector.

Canary Wharf made its debut in the corporate bond market on Tuesday, with a green triple-tranche bond in euros and sterling that found plenty of demand, despite the rocky future for office space.

AIA Group sold its second tier two dollar bond on Tuesday, coming to the market after Hong Kong's new issuance regulations came into effect.