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Deutsche Börse, owner of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and Eurex, brought some calm to a frazzled bond market on Thursday, with what market participants agreed was a successful issue.

China Reinsurance is slated to start gauging demand for its $2bn Hong Kong IPO on October 5, with books set to open a week later, according to a banker working on the transaction.

Shandong Weigao Orthopaedic Device Co is taking another stab at a Hong Kong listing, tweaking the list of sponsors leading its deal.

On Thursday, September 24, GlobalCapital held its 2015 Global Derivatives Dinner at Banking Hall in London and revealed the winners of its Global Derivatives Awards 2015.

Mondelez followed up its Swiss franc debut in March with a second successful outing this week, taking the total raised in the currency this year to Sfr1.075bn.

UBS pulled in $13bn of demand for a holdco senior debut in dollars this week, which for some bankers showed the gulf between attitudes towards loss-absorbing debt on either side of the Atlantic.

ING Belgium and Bawag received good receptions for their covered bonds issued this week, in contrast to less spectacular outcomes for deals from Westpac New Zealand and UniCredit.

The European high yield market appeared to have woken up this week with three roadshows and €900m on offer — but only one borrower has printed, and investors have now little hope of an unequivocal improvement any time soon.

Avangard, Ukraine’s largest egg producer, has appointed a Swiss bank as sole solicitation agent for its planned Eurobond restructuring.

UBS's head of UK and Ireland FIG DCM is to take on the lead EMEA post in the division.

Three shareholders in HKBN have exited from the Hong Kong-listed telecommunications company, raising a collective HK$614.2 ($79.3m), in what is the first accelerated block in the stock since its IPO in March.

Arrow Global, the UK distressed debt buyer and manager, on Wednesday issued a €110m tap of its €225m floating rate high yield bond, to support business purchases in the UK and Portugal.