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Taiwan-listed Nanya Technology Corp is in the market for a $500m zero coupon convertible bond, launching the trade on Tuesday evening.

Times Property Holdings made a successful return to the international debt market on Monday with a $375m bond, benefiting from a strategy of starting with a generous initial guidance before slashing it by almost 40bp.

China Development Bank Corp is kicking off the year with a bang, launching a euro/dollar dual currency bond across five tranches Tuesday morning.

Detsky Mir, the Russian children’s goods retailer, has announced its intention to float on the Moscow Exchange, more than two years after shelving plans to go public when Western sanctions were imposed on some Russian entities after the country's annexation of Crimea in 2014, and Russia suffered a recession.

China Development Bank Corp has turned its sights on adollar-euro transaction to start its 2017 debt issuance.

High yield real estate names Times Property Holdings and Yanlord Land Group are marketing their respective dollar-denominated bonds on Monday morning, looking to lock in early funding for the year.

SEA Holdings, Guangzhou R&F Properties and a Changchun local government financing vehicle took advantage of the abundant liquidity in the bond market by locking in funds on Thursday.

UBS is losing its Asia head of corporate client solutions, who is understood to have resigned on Thursday, according to sources.

Equity-linked issuance in Europe burst into life on Thursday with the sale of a €500m bond for Prysmian Cables & Systems and the first Japanese CB of any size since September. Then on Thursday evening Immofinanz launched another deal. The clutch of deals suggests the market is wide open for issuers.

ASB Finance and Met Life entered the Swiss market this week despite them having little need for the Swiss currency in their funding programmes.

Ten year Pfandbrief €500m deals issued this week by NordLB and Bawag were narrowly oversubscribed even with the support of the Eurosystem.

Auckland Council on Thursday pulled off a 7bp tightening for its first ever public deal in euros. The trade was joined in the market by paper from the City of Hamburg and Bpifrance Financement.