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Korean Housing Finance Corporation (KHFC) has launched its second social covered bond of the year in euros, setting the spread for its deal in the middle of its guidance range.

Taiping Financial Holdings Co has become the latest Chinese firm to pay back its outstanding loan early.

Indonesian property bonds have taken a hit in the secondary market, following growing concerns that Modernland Realty will default on a bond due in July.

Peru’s largest commercial lender Banco de Crédito del Perú (BCP) raised $850m of 10-year non-call five tier two bonds on Friday, offering what some bankers saw as a slim pick-up to its senior debt on the back of a nearly four times subscribed order book.

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Aston Martin, the UK car maker returned to equity markets on Friday morning to raise yet more equity capital after completing a rights issue in April. The company has sold a stake worth 19.9% of its share capital to allow a new management team to rebuild the company.

Issuers are struggling to obtain the necessary internal approvals to issue covered bonds, given how expensive the instruments are compared to the European Central Bank's Targeted Longer Term Refinancing Operations (TLTRO III).

The derivatives industry has lost another of its major conferences after the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) was forced to cancel its annual general meeting amid the spread of the coronavirus and related travel restrictions.

Bolivia will be forced to abandon plans to raise crucial funding in bond markets, the country’s public credit head has told GlobalCapital, after its Congress passed a bill that requires the government to seek approval from the legislative branch on the terms of the issue, amid a tense political climate.

Generali agreed to take a large stake in fellow Italian insurance company Cattolica this week. The deal includes plans for a €500m capital increase, which takes the pressure off Cattolica to boost its solvency position and means the firm will no longer seek to access the market for restricted tier one debt.

Speaking at a Treasury Committee hearing on Wednesday, Sir Robert Stheeman, chief executive of the UK’s Debt Management Office, said that he was not concerned about the Bank of England’s decision last week to slow down the pace of Gilt purchases until the end of the year.

Bank bond spreads widened further on Thursday amid growing numbers of infections in Europe and the US. Deal arrangers say that issuers will need to be more careful about choosing the right issuance window as markets remain choppy.