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GlobalCapital announces the results of its Equity Capital Markets Awards for 2015, following our inaugural ECM Awards Dinner, in London on March 16.

Pascal Guttieres, a managing director and head of block trading, global capital markets, for Asia ex-Japan at UBS, has left the bank.

AMTD Group has successfully wrapped up its debut outing to the international debt market, selling a $110m three year trade on Wednesday.

A spectacular spectrum of FIG issuers stormed into the bond markets this week as the European Central Bank’s latest round of stimulus squeezed spreads tighter and investors finally caved in to the bulging pipeline of deals. With Easter fast approaching, there is little sign of issuance slowing, writes Tyler Davies.

There has been €6.5bn of euro FIG supply across most asset classes in the first two sessions this week, with issuers riding a turnaround in sentiment after the European Central Bank announced more monetary stimulus last week.

AMTD Group is out with its first international bond, taking bids on Wednesday for a three year dollar transaction that was covered at launch.

Santander brought peripheral bank capital back to the FIG market on Tuesday, as the recent rally showed little sign of wearing off following last week’s European Central Bank meeting.

BP Capital Markets kept its run of funding activity going strong on Monday, with a $500m five year Eurodollar transaction that was over three times oversubscribed.

UBS wasted no time in using the rally induced by more European Central Bank stimulus on Monday, launching the first additional tier one transaction since a sharp sell-off had some predicting the death of the product last month.

Russian gas company Gazprom is roadshowing a possible Swiss franc bond, which would be its first in the currency since the EU and US laid down sanctions on several Russian state-owned companies in 2014.

The qualified domestic limited partnership (QDLP) scheme was reported to be the latest victim of attempts by the Chinese authorities to stem outflows. Market participants, however, deny the scheme has been shut down.

European Central Bank president Mario Draghi did not disappoint with his latest burst of stimulus on Thursday — although some public sector bankers felt his latest efforts to boost the eurozone economy could have damaging effects on the SSA bond market.