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Chinese issuers Fujian Yango Group and Tewoo Group Co, alongside Fullerton Healthcare Corp from Singapore, are wooing investors for their respective dollar bonds with roadshows set to take place this week.

A managing director in FIG debt capital markets is no longer in his role at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Argentina returned to the Swiss market for the first time in nearly 20 years on Thursday to print a Sfr400m ($403m) three and a half year bond.

Alfa-Bank emerged with pricing for a three year euro-denominated bond on Thursday morning, in the first deal in the currency from the Russian lender since June 2014.

Another day, another €1.5bn of high yield bond offerings was what Tuesday’s deals from Aramark, Anglo American and Arrow meant for a European market awash with double-B rated paper. But too much of a good thing is putting off some traditional high yield buyers.

A pair of issuers from Australia and New Zealand have announced they will take new euro deals on roadshows at the end of the month.

UBS jumped into the dollar market this week with its first deal of the year as spreads tightened following the Federal Reserve’s move to increase interest rates.

Two more IPOs of significant size were announced this week in Western Europe, and with four weeks to go until the start of the Easter holidays, they are likely to be the last of this IPO season to be launched.

Argentina is returning to the Swiss franc bond market after nearly 20 years, roadshowing a benchmark bond next week. Success or failure will indicate whether Swiss investors have forgiven Argentina for burning their fingers last time they met, writes Silas Brown.

Netherlands-based telecoms firm Altice, one of the European leveraged finance market’s leading issuers, held a lender call at 3pm London time on Thursday for €1.6bn of loan refinancings in euros, and more in dollars.

UBS has made a number of new hires across its Asia Pacific businesses, according to memos seen by GlobalCapital Asia this week.

South Korean mobile game developer Netmarble Games plans to submit its IPO prospectus on Friday and start pre-deal investor education on March 20, according to a banker working on the deal.