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Asia’s dollar bond issuers were back in the market on Thursday after taking a pause during the US Federal Open Market Committee meeting this week.

The order book for OneSmart International Education Group’s $212m IPO on the New York Stock Exchange is well covered across the price range, said a banker at one of the leads.

Qatar Investment Authority pocketed HK$5.2bn ($663.5m) on Tuesday from a simultaneous sell-down in Hong Kong-listed Lifestyle International Holdings and Lifestyle China Group.

GlobalCapital revealed the winners of its Equity Capital Markets Awards 2017 at our third annual Awards Dinner in London on March 20. CEOs and CFOs were present to collect Awards for landmark deals such as the UniCredit and Santander rights issues and the IPOs of Allied Irish Banks and Pirelli.

Financial firms are turning to artificial intelligence to catch perpetrators of market abuse and other breaches of financial rules.

UBS is keeping the equity blocks market busy in Asia, launching two deals consecutively in the Philippines and Hong Kong — both as sole bookrunner.

A director of UBS' Swiss franc syndicate is leaving the desk and the financial sector on Monday, to pursue a career at a technology start up.

Italian business software vendor TeamSystem returned to the public bond market to refinance a floating rate note it placed privately in 2016, as high yield fund managers increase their demand for floating rate debt this year.

China’s OneSmart International Education Group opened books for its $211.9m IPO of American Depository Shares (ADS) on Monday.

Baidu-backed video streaming platform iQiyi kicked off bookbuilding for its $2.38bn US listing on Monday and was covered quickly.

Two central and eastern European corporates announced euro trades on Friday, adding to a busy pipeline of emerging markets deals.

Books closed on the IPO of Siemens Healthineers, the healthcare technology division of Siemens, on Thursday lunchtime, with the base deal valued at €3.65bn and the company at €28bn.