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The Province of Ontario ended an absence of almost four years from the Swiss franc market this week to land a 12 year note at fair value. Elsewhere, Valiant Bank and Pfandbriefbank kept the domestic market ticking over with a handful of covered deals.

Meituan, a Chinese food delivery company, raised $10bn this week from a combined equity placement and convertible bond issue. Investors flocked to the deal for the investment grade rating and the offer of a highly liquid and volatile stock. Jonathan Breen reports.

China Gas Holdings fell by more than 11% on Thursday after it raised HK$11.66bn ($1.5bn) from the sale of new shares through a top-up placement.

Three Chinese corporate borrowers raised a combined $757m from the offshore bond market on Wednesday.

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, a subsidiary of Korea Electric Power Corp, has printed a $500m bond after getting five times the demand at the peak of bookbuilding.

Food delivery giant Meituan has raised close to $10bn from an overnight sale of shares and convertible bonds, getting solid interest from investors and raising money to ramp up its investment into the technology part of its business.

Luzerner Kantonalbank has mandated for its first tier two bond in almost a decade, coming ahead of a subordinated debt redemption later this year.

Switzerland's cantonal banks enjoyed an open window this week thanks to Pfandbriefzentrale's extended stint away from the market. Elsewhere, the Canton of Zurich was able to harness the lack of sub-sovereign supply to land at an aggressive level versus govvies.

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Demand for BPCE's latest Kangaroo note was skewed towards the preferred senior format this week, with non-preferred paper only making up A$125m ($96.0m) of the A$750m deal. The French firm was also joined in the market by Rabobank, which sold its first Aussie deal after an almost two year absence.

Rabobank sold the first euro additional tier one (AT1) bond in almost six weeks on Tuesday, landing the deal at a record low coupon in euros for the format.

BPCE and Rabobank are in the market for Aussie dollar senior paper, with bankers expecting a busy April as a slew of financial issuers refinance maturing bonds.