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Three block trades took place on Tuesday night, as Europe’s equity capital markets appear to be returning to normality after the stress of the Greek debt negotiations of the past few weeks.

Korea National Oil Corp (KNOC) has announced a series of investor meetings in Asia, Europe and US as it gears up for the first offshore bond of 2015.

Asia’s primary debt capital market was crowded on July 14 as opportunistic issuers rushed out to take advantage of a favourable, but perhaps short, issuance window. Korea Gas Corp (KoGas) was among the throng.

NagaCorp, which runs the only licensed casino in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, is said to be sounding out the market for a borrowing of around $300m to fund its expansion in Cambodia.

No sooner had the first tentative signs appeared of an agreement over Greece's debt crisis than the Asia ex-Japan primary debt capital markets finally woke up to some action from a trio of deals.

Bluefield Partners, the UK solar energy investment firm, launched on Monday the bookbuild for the IPO of a new fund, despite the failure of two solar power IPOs in the past three months. The sale will run until July 30.

Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology has hired three banks to arrange investor meetings ahead of what will be the first green bond by a Chinese issuer.

Friday was a great day for Flow Traders to make its stockmarket debut. You might almost think they were traders. The Euro Stoxx 50 index opened 1.6% up as hopes rose of a debt deal for Greece, and doubled that gain by the afternoon. With that wind in its sails, Flow Traders zoomed up 14%.

UBS has hired what it said was its first ever global head of equity syndicate, in a bid to fight its way back up the US equity capital markets league table.

Haixia Capital raised HK$6.33bn ($816m) on Tuesday evening by selling all of its stake in Haitong Securities despite a crash in the Hong Kong and China stock markets, preferring to cut its losses and move on rather than wait for an opportune window.

Credit Suisse and UBS stormed to the top of the bookrunner charts for senior FIG bonds in the first half, but their rivals will be more worried about the dive in overall volumes across the market versus a year earlier.

Nomad Foods, the renamed cash shell Nomad Holdings that has bought Iglo Birds Eye, raised around $321m of new equity on Wednesday in an accelerated bookbuild.