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Korea Development Bank raised $1.5bn from the bond market on Monday as investors showed strong support for the Aa2/AA/AA- rated issuer.

Zhongliang Holdings Group Co has raised $250m from a 364-day deal, on the back of revived trading in Chinese high yield property bonds.

Piraeus Bank has mandated lead managers for the sale of a new tier two, as it looks to follow the success of its compatriot Alpha Bank. Greek banks have emerged as big winners in the secondary market recently, with investors shrugging off risks and focusing on ‘only the positives’.

Dollar bonds sold by Chinese high yield property companies recovered from their trading lows at the end of January to become some of the highest performing notes in Asia last week. While that has created some positive momentum for the deals set to come to the market soon, analysts remain cautious.

Thailand’s Central Retail Corp has priced the country’s largest IPO near the top of the marketed range, netting Bt71bn ($2.3bn) by navigating a volatile stock market.

The Development Bank of Kazakhstan (DBK) released initial price guidance for a tenge-denominated five year bond on Wednesday morning in London.

The concessionaire on a 50km toll road in Kingston, Jamaica will begin meeting fixed income investors on Friday ahead of an international bond deal, as bankers say rarer issuers are likely to dominate supply for the foreseeable future.

JP Morgan has hired William Vereker, former global co-head of investment banking at UBS and business envoy to former UK prime minister Theresa May, to be vice-chairman for investment banking in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Development Bank of Kazakhstan (DBK) is embarking on a roadshow to market a tenge-denominated Eurobond.

Shane Edwards, former global head of solutions and structuring and global head of equity derivatives at UBS, has joined Diginex, a digital asset firm.

Austrian sensor maker AMS said on Tuesday that it intended to sell all its treasury shares, ahead of its looming €1.64bn rights issue to finance its takeover of Osram Licht, the German lighting manufacturer.

Records tumbled in the US bond market this week, as Bank of America and Toronto Dominion set new pricing records.