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Nasdaq-listed Chinese biopharmaceutical firm BeiGene has bagged $175m from a follow-on public offering of American Depositary Shares (ADSs).

UBS has brought one of its most seasoned executives in Asia out of retirement to take up a senior position in the investment banking unit.

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The US investment grade corporate bond enjoyed a huge week of issuance as nine borrowers printed deals on Monday before British American Tobacco delivered $17.25bn on its own on Tuesday and plenty more came on Wednesday and Thursday. Bankers predict another heavy week to follow before supply slows for the traditional summer break.

Filecoin, one of the first cryptocurrencies to function in explicit compliance with SEC securities regulation, is set to launch on Thursday on a platform called Coinlist, a fund-raising platform to help start-ups run their own "initial coin offerings". The offering is a test of whether the controversial capital raisings can function in accordance with rules designed for shares and bonds.

British American Tobacco set fire to any notion that markets close in August this week with a $20.8bn bond bonanza. It brought a $17.25bn eight tranche deal on Tuesday — the second largest bond transaction of the year in the US — and followed that with a €3.6bn-equivalent four tranche dual currency deal in Europe on Wednesday. Nigel Owen reports.

US electric car firm Tesla was roadshowing a $1.5bn eight year debut bond offering this week. The company can do no wrong in many observers’ eyes, although stripped back documentation is likely to deter at least some investors from the deal.

GlobalCapital speaks to Wojtek Niebrzydowski, vice president, treasury, at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce about the implications for Canadian covered bonds under the country’s newly proposed resolution regime and ask what SEC Reg AB rule revisions mean for SEC-registered covered bond programmes.

European corporate bond markets remain focused on British American Tobacco’s multi-tranche deal expected later this week. However, nine different investment grade issuers printed new issues in the US on Monday, making it the most varied day of 2017 so far.

UBS attracted around $7bn of demand for Monday’s dollar deal after announcing it at the start of the London market.

British American Tobacco is expected to bring the week-long run without any new corporate bond issuance to an end later this week. The UK based tobacco company could issue in dollars, euros and sterling.

Verizon Communications launched its first Australian dollar bond on Thursday. The four tranche deal is the largest corporate bond in the currency this year, raising A$2.2bn ($1.75bn) when it was priced on Friday.