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Hispania Activos Inmobiliarios, the Spanish property asset manager, has increased its capital by 50%, using an accelerated bookbuild on Monday night, to fund further property investment.

Shanghai Haohai Biological Technology’s HK$2.36bn ($304m) IPO received a rousing reception allowing bookbuilding to wrap up sooner than planned as booming demand led to the shares pricing at the top of the range.

Rupert Hume-Kendall, one of the dominant equity capital markets bankers in Europe during the years 2000 to 2008, is to retire from Bank of America Merrill Lynch at the end of September.

Credit Suisse became the fifth European financial name to tap the Australian dollar market in less than a month on Thursday.

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Nationwide Building Society and ASB Bank tapped the senior unsecured sterling market this week, bringing what are likely to be among the last trades in the currency before a break before the UK general election.

Iglo, the foods company that has been sold by Permira to a London-listed special purpose acquisition company, is asking lenders on a €1.2bn loan to consent to the change in control.

The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (Cabei) on Thursday printed its largest Swiss franc deal to date at a level that was through its existing curve.

Nationwide hit the sterling market for a seven year print on Thursday, selling what some bankers reckon could be the last senior sterling before the UK’s general election.

Hony Capital has raked in a whopping HK$11.1bn ($1.43bn) by exiting CSPC Pharmaceutical and Chinasoft International via two block trades that hit the market in quick succession, ending the PE firm’s involvement in these Hong Kong-listed companies.

Ineos, the chemical company, returned to the high yield bond market on Wednesday with a €770m deal to redeem $775m of notes it issued in 2012.

As part of Nomad’s acquisition of Iglo, lenders for an outstanding €1.2bn loan have been asked to consent to a change in the company's control.