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Cloopen Group Holding, a cloud-based communications provider, launched its New York Stock Exchange IPO on Wednesday night.

Mexican quasi-sovereign Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) offered little to no concession on its first 144A/Reg S deal since 2016 on Tuesday, attracting a broad range of investors to an order book that peaked above $10bn.

Global equity markets were propelled to new all-time highs at the end of last year when various drug companies announced that they were close to releasing vaccines to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. However, with the vaccine roll-out slow, new mutant variants of the virus raging and governments striking a sombre tone, investors need to prepare for the fact that they may have bought in haste.

Singapore’s ride hailing start-up Grab Holding has further increased the size of its term loan B to $2bn following solid traction in the US market.

7-Eleven capitalised on huge investor demand to issue its first dollar bond this week, printing the largest US corporate deal of the year so far.

Sustainable bond issuance has made its strongest start to the year ever, thrusting the market towards what most observers believe will be a year when many records will be broken — especially in north and south America, where environmental and social consciousness is rising. Jon Hay, Mike Turner and Oliver West report.

HSBC appoints two within AIBC — Credit Suisse Asset Management hires head of origination in direct lending — Richard Luddington joins Rothschild

US equity markets suffered their worst single day since October on Wednesday, as equity investors reacted to growing concerns over stock valuations and fears of Covid-19 vaccine disappointment. Equity capital markets bankers hope that investor sentiment will hold for new deals, even if global markets take a turn for the worse. Sam Kerr reports.

GlobalCapital is delighted to announce the nominees for this year’s Americas Derivatives Awards.

The GameStop short squeeze has cost institutional investors billions. I’ll feel more sympathy if they’d occasionally pay for their drinks.

Casino operator Genting New York priced a $525m bond on Wednesday.

Malaysia-based Catcha Group is floating a southeast Asia-focused special purpose acquisition company (Spac) on the New York Stock Exchange.