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Opera’s planned $115m Nasdaq IPO now has a cryptocurrency angle after Bitmain, a Chinese bitcoin miner, joined the deal as an anchor investor.

Pinduoduo, one of China’s hottest internet start-ups, has filed for a $1bn IPO in the US, upping the ante in an e-commerce landscape dominated by Alibaba Group.

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association on Monday said that the uptake of clearing of interest rate derivatives in the US was partially a result of the “powerful incentive to clear” thanks to the benefits of multilateral netting.

Issuance of US private placement debt has fallen by up to a quarter year on year, according to US PP market participants. The fault lies in the US — as opposed to Australia and Europe — as the cost of debt begins to rise for issuers alongside US rate rises.

Friday marks one year since the launch of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure’s final guidelines — a blueprint for companies to report to investors how they are facing up to climate change.

Europe’s equity-linked bond market has been anaemic this year, in both performance and volume of issuance. Yet in the US, tax reforms, rising interest rates and share prices near record highs have created a booming market for convertible bonds which shows little sign of abating, writes Aidan Gregory.

No financial issuers came forward as they waited for the US Federal Reserve to publish the results of its Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) this week.

The US dollar bond market ended a record-breaking month on a downbeat note as borrowers stayed on the sidelines amid a poor technical backdrop. Charter Communications became the first SEC registered issuer of the week on Thursday with a long five year trade and the only two other benchmark trades were from 144A issuers on Tuesday.

As the first half of 2018 draws to a close, it is clear Europe’s equity capital markets have been battered by political tensions and fears of disruption to international trade. Volume is down, particularly in block trades.

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has acquired roughly 16% of collateral manager AcadiaSoft in an attempt to improve its offering in the non-cleared derivatives margin and processing business.

Nasdaq-listed Momo this week bagged $650m from its first convertible bond, shrugging off a volatile market to close the deal multiple times covered.

Bway, the US container maker, is including €475m of euro bonds in the leveraged financing for its $1bn acquisition of rival Industrial Container Services, in a sign of the increasing attractiveness of euro high yield markets.