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Hong Kong’s market regulator is planning to ban UBS from sponsoring any IPOs in the city for 18 months, according to a section in the bank’s 2017 annual report released on Friday.

The Philippines’ Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) found tepid investor demand for its dollar transaction on Thursday, but managed to raise $300m from the bond.

Piraeus Bank's Project Amoeba is one of the first secured Greek NPL portfolios to hit the market, and will serve as a crucial benchmark for pricing on the remaining €100bn of NPLs to come. Meanwhile, the other major banks are selling unsecured books.

Ma returns to HSBC — Morgan Stanley Indo banker exits — SocGen promotes Malhotra — Credit Suisse loans chief leaves — Citi loses HK, Macau head — JPM dealmaker heads to start-up — UBS sees senior departures

Chinese video streaming platform Bilibili filed a prospectus with the US market regulator this week, eyeing up to $400m from an IPO of American Depository Shares (ADS).

With activist investors firmly established in Europe, advisers are beefing up teams and trying to position themselves for a possible shake-up in the relationship between boards and investment banks, writes David Rothnie.

New Zealand financial Kiwibank is holding non-deal roadshows in Switzerlandahead of what could be its first bond issue in Swiss francs since 2014.

The IPO of Siemens Healthineers was covered on day one of its bookbuild on Tuesday after its parent, Siemens, set a price range designed to please potential investors in the IPO of its medical technology division.

Unigel, the Brazilian commodity chemical producer, is planning a cross-border bond debut that would replace all of its existing debt, according to rating agency reports.

Korea Development Bank found a very different response to its bond outing this week versus its last transaction in September, with investors eating up its $1bn fixed and floating rate combination deal.

China Minmetals Corp’s perpetual bond sale on Monday was a demonstration of the market’s strength after a volatile few weeks, but the deal came at a cost.

Gategroup Holding, the Swiss airline catering company, is planning to list on the SIX Swiss Exchange in an IPO that will allow its Chinese owner HNA Group to raise leverage-funds after a global acquisition spree.