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Wise Talent Information Technology Co, owner of recruitment website Liepin.com, has bagged HK$2.9bn ($369.6m) after pricing its Hong Kong IPO near the top of guidance.

China's Zhenro Properties Group opted for a slightly unusual bookbuilding process for its debut public dollar transaction, paying a yield of 11.5% for a two year bond.

UBS and Royal Bank of Scotland tapped into the resilience of the dollar market this week, as they printed well-received trades amid volatile conditions.

Spanish electricity utility Iberdrola has been one of the leading corporate issuers of green bonds and, on Thursday, it took its total green issuance to more than €7bn with its latest offering.

Clients of bank index platforms are adapting to a new investment climate, increasingly opting for more defensive strategies and specifically positioning for volatility spikes similar to the ones markets experienced in early February.

EPP, a Polish real estate investment company, postponed its five year euro bond on Monday despite having gone as far as to set the yield for the deal. The company blamed adverse market conditions, while bankers away from the deal were divided as to whether anything could or should have been done differently by the leads.

EPP, a Polish real estate investment company, has come to market for a five year euro benchmark in what will be the first non-corporate bond from CEE since early May, but early indications suggest a lukewarm reception.

The North American Development Bank (NADB) will hold meetings in Geneva and Zurich to discuss a debut Swiss franc green bond, as the possibilities for arbitrage grows for international SSAs.

Equity derivatives strategists are keeping their cool and see no need to switch strategies after the European Central Bank on Thursday held rates and declared December as the month quantitative easing would end.

The Export-Import Bank of Korea returned to the Swiss franc bond market on Thursday, capitalising on an arbitrage window against its dollar curve.

Wise Talent Information Technology, owner of recruitment website Liepin.com, has opened books for its up to HK$3.1bn ($398.1m) Hong Kong IPO.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) on Wednesday priced a triple-tranche green bond. But the deal, comparatively smaller than recent issues at $730m equivalent, had a moment of intrigue when one global co-ordinator left the syndicate group.