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The UK sold its last syndication of the financial year on Tuesday, selling a £2.25bn 2051 index linked bond — its first syndication in the format since November 2019.

Snam, the Italian gas pipeline company, and SKF, the Swedish ball bearing maker, kicked the week’s corporate bond new issuance off in Europe on Monday with deals that offered razor-thin spreads from the start.

A pair of triple-A rated European agencies sold their first Swiss franc bonds for several years this week, responding to reverse enquiry for long dated, high rated paper.

CTP, the Dutch logistics real estate company, did away with its usual bond marketing routine and went with a one day execution on its latest deal on Thursday, as the company reckoned on the green label and the sector it operates in being enough to get investors on board.

New Horizon Health, a medical device manufacturer, has scooped up HK$2.04bn ($263.4m) from its IPO after strong institutional investor demand pushed pricing up to the top of the marketed range.

Deloitte has hired another former investment banker to work with financial firms, in the form of Guy Stevens.

China-based Betta Pharmaceuticals, a developer of cancer treatments, is planning a Hong Kong IPO, having filed draft paperwork with the city’s stock exchange on Monday.

Fonplata, the South American supranational development bank, raised Sfr200m of 5.5-year bonds in the Swiss franc market on Wednesday, increasing the size of the deal from an initially planned Sfr150m. Alongside this, a clutch of domestic borrowers also tapped the market this week.

CaixaBank and BayernLB were able to sail through fair value with green non-preferred senior deals this week, bucking a trend for rising new issue premiums in 2021. Bankers say a lack of supply is finally helping borrowers to exert more power over their pricing.

New Horizon Health hit the equities market on Thursday, aiming to raise up to HK$2.04bn ($263.1m) from its IPO, according to a source familiar with the matter.

UBS found room for $5bn of new debt in the dollar market this week, starting with a “phenomenal” result for a new additional tier one (AT1) on Monday and ending with a three-part senior offering a day later.

CaixaBank found €3.7bn of demand for a green senior bond on Tuesday, as investors revealed their hunger for new paper. BayernLB could follow with a green deal of its own against the improving backdrop in euros.