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FIG market participants expect a smooth return to euro bond issuance from next week, with bankers and investors now set up to facilitate deals where ever they may be.

Ke Holdings sealed a $2.12bn IPO on the New York Stock Exchange this week, the largest US listing by a Chinese firm in more than two years, defying the shock caused by US sanctions against one of its largest shareholders, Tencent Holdings. Jonathan Breen reports.

Hong Kong rail operator MTR Corp priced a larger and tighter green bond than expected this week, with investors showing their faith in a company that has been forced to battle protests and the pandemic in the past year. Morgan Davis reports.

UK mortgage moratorium numbers are being inflated by the timing of the government’s job retention scheme, with data from lenders suggesting payment holiday levels were more in line with continental Europe than they at first appeared, according to investors.

German energy giant E.On launched a liability management exercise on Thursday to harmonise the group’s funding structure following its takeover of Innogy in 2018.

S&P has warned there is no smooth way for banks and insurers to direct proceeds from debt capital instruments towards specific green financing objectives. It recommended that these issuers instead focus on making broad commitments through their green subordinated bonds.

Private equity firms EQT Partners and Vaaka Partners have offloaded €118.5m of stock in Musti Group, the Finland-based pet store, in an otherwise barren week for block trades in EMEA.

European equity capital markets are gearing up for a wave of autumn IPOs and are worrying that they will struggle for investor attention. But one of the few good things to have emerged from the coronavirus pandemic — the use of technology to accelerate deal calendars — should alleviate fears of congestion.

Many saw the US Federal Reserve’s decision to lend hundreds of billions of dollars to certain central banks at the height of the coronavirus crisis as pivotal in preventing further calamity in global markets. Brad Setser, senior fellow for international economics at the Council of Foreign Relations, gives a great deal of credit to the Fed for its forceful intervention. But if markets begin to see the US central bank as a global lender of last resort, there may be a greater risk of imprudent behaviour and more political tumult in the US.

Chinese delivery company Yunda Holding Co made its debut in the dollar market on Wednesday, raising $500m.

OneConnect Financial Technology Co, a Chinese technology-as-a-service platform, raised $324m this week from a larger than expected follow-on offering of its US-listed stock.

India's placements market is heating up, with new issuers set to raise fresh equity.