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CPPIB Capital sold its first public Sonia floating rate note on Monday, with Oesterreichische Kontrollbank set to be the next public sector borrower to hit the sterling market after mandating banks for a long four year fixed rate benchmark.

Chinese online recruitment company Kanzhun has hit the road with an up to $912m Nasdaq listing.

Deutsche Bank’s recently announced policy on returning to the New York office in September fits what many bankers have been expecting for months and heralds a return to normality. But for a small subset of bankers who left offices in London for lockdown in March 2020, the end of restrictions will also mean a change of circumstances — and getting used to living in a new country.

Brazilian steel producer CSN and Mexican building materials company Cemex continued a storming week for Latin American high yield issuance with new deals that attracted bumper orders and priced tight to bankers’ expectations — even if comparable deals were not always clear cut.

Supply was light in the US corporate bond market this week, partly because the May non-farm payrolls report is due on Friday. Participants are braced for volatility after the US Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday it would start selling its holdings of corporate bonds, purchased as a stimulus measure at the height of the pandemic. It was left to Vodafone of the UK to reopen new issuance after the Memorial Day holiday.

Financial institutions returned to the dollar in their droves after the memorial Day holiday, with 12 borrowers cramming more than $15bn of issuance into three days this week.

After a year-long frenzy, the primary market for US convertible bonds has cooled, following a rotation out of technology stocks and jitters over rising yields on government bonds. An injection of realism is no bad thing, however, and should be welcomed in a market that has almost doubled in size within the space of a year.

Deutsche Bank has told staff in New York that they should prepare to be back in the office by Labor Day (September 6), as the firm works on plans to allow more remote working for some in the future.

Citi has hired Chuck Adams from Goldman Sachs to oversee a newly formed investment banking unit combining the traditional healthcare sector with consumer and retail coverage.

Mexican building materials company Cemex is looking to sell a perpetual hybrid bond that it believes will help it towards its target of building an investment grade capital structure.

Grupo Axo, the Mexican fashion retailer, sold $325m of five year notes on its international bond market debut on Tuesday, tightening the price as bankers said Latin America bond markets were in a sweet spot for new issuance.

Two senior leveraged finance lawyers have switched firms from White & Case to Allen & Overy in New York, following Jake Mincemoyer, who joined A&O as head of US levfin in February.