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Renaissance Capital has hired Dan Harvey as a director on the firm’s equity trading desk in London.

Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), a pan-African multilateral development finance institution, has returned to the market with a short dated medium term note and could print in the format again soon.

Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) is understood to have increased the size of its borrowing to $200m — double the launch size.

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has embarked on a non-deal roadshow, with Lazard engaged as financial advisor and Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan helping to arrange investor meetings.

Interglobe Aviation, the holding company of Indian budget carrier IndiGo, and Coffee Day Enterprises are looking to launch their IPOs in October, in deals that could raise a combined Rp36.5bn ($548.19m).

The trading arm of China’s Tewoo Group is raising a $100m two year onshore loan, with the amortiser offering banks an additional incentive for early commitments.

Easing liquidity conditions supported offers in the very short end of the CNY swap curve on Monday. This drove some disinversion momentum in the 1s/2s NDIRS curve slope that sources expect to continue, writes Deirdre Yeung of Total Derivatives.

Hong Kong conglomerate Swire Pacific is looking to find long-dated appetite with a new 10 year bond in US dollars.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has mandated five banks to work on a US dollar-denominated Basel III tier two trade.

The entity that has managed the Panama Canal since the US relinquished control in 1999 will meet fixed income investors in the next week ahead of a planned bond market debut.

Corporate bond issuers sustained their recent flood of borrowing on Friday, as Italian oil and gas firm ENI and UK media company ITV both brought deals.

Italy’s borrowing costs dropped across the curve at an auction on Friday, although its yields at the longer end are still some distance from the euro-era lows hit earlier this year.