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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.

Banco Commercial Portugues is planning to build out its debt stack with a preferred senior note, which should have value for the minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL).

Chinese company Alibaba Group Holding made its long-awaited return to the debt market this week, even as the country’s regulators turned up the heat on the e-commerce giant.

Lippo Malls Indonesia Retail Trust printed a $200m bond on Tuesday, with investors largely brushing off concerns about the hit to the borrower's business during the pandemic.

Iberdrola, the Spanish utility, received booming demand for its green hybrid on Tuesday, as the combination of a higher yield and green debt helped books swell to €9.5bn.

Polish social and mobile gaming company Huuuge will price its Warsaw IPO at Z50, the top of the initial range, valuing the business at Z4.6bn ($1.2bn), according to sources close to the transaction.

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.

Mongolian Mortgage Corp (MIK), which was forced to pull its dollar bond last month after sudden political upheaval in the country, returned to the market on Monday to raise $250m.

The Singapore Exchange has sold a €240m zero coupon convertible bond, its debut equity-linked issue and the first CB from a stock exchange globally in eight years.

Met Group, the Swiss energy trading company, has signed €915m of short term loans, reducing its facility for the first time for years, after ABN Amro, one of its main lenders, pulled out of this kind of financing. Met found two other banks to replace ABN but wanted to focus on price with the deal, rather than size.

Mainland-based healthcare sector issuers SciClone Phamaceuticals (Holdings), New Horizon Health and Joinn Laboratories (China) kicked off pre-deal investor education for their Hong Kong IPOs on Monday.

In a rare sign that environmental campaigners are having an impact on the financial industry, the burden of financing the Ecuadorian Amazon oil trade has shifted between banks in the past six months. But it is clear the banking industry is supporting the trade in more ways than have yet been uncovered.