Nomura

NRW.Bank is set to return to the sterling market on Tuesday, coming on the heels of a tap from the Council of Europe Development Bank.

Nomura said it had hired Frédéric Giovansili, Citi's head of markets for France, Belgium and Luxembourg, as head of western European sales, the Japanese bank's third senior hire from Citi in short order.

Jianpu Technology has filed for a $200m listing of American Depositary Shares, tapping three bulge bracket banks as underwriters. Hong Kong-based iClick Interactive Asia Group, meanwhile, is eyeing $100m.

Kia Motors Corp found nothing but clear roads in the bond market on Thursday, after a moment of traffic briefly delayed its $900m dual-tranche transaction.

Investors in public sector dollar deals have found themselves forced to accept brutally tight pricing as issuers drive in spreads to round off their funding programmes.

Kia Motors Corp is returning to the international bond market, opening books for a dual-tranche 144A/Reg transaction on Thursday morning.

Italian telecoms firm Wind called on the high yield market on Wednesday, as it planned to refinance most of its debt with a dual currency five tranche offering, deploying 20 bookrunners in the process.

Chinese micro-lender Qudian has bagged $900m from its US listing, after robust demand allowed it to price the stock above the initial range, according to a banker close to the deal.

Four Chinese corporations priced a total of $1.175bn of bonds on Tuesday, the day before the start of the Communist Party’s five-yearly congress.

Three agencies launched short end dollar transactions on Tuesday, two of which managed to pull their spreads into impressively tight levels.

Shandong Marine Group is marketing its inaugural international Reg S bond, while LVGEM (China) Real Estate Investment Company reopened its 2020s priced two months ago to fund new property projects.

Agencies from the Netherlands, France and Germany are set to come to market on Tuesday for short dated dollar deals.