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Viva China Holdings raised HK$3.8bn ($491.4m) by offloading a block of shares in Chinese sportswear manufacturer Li Ning Co this week, while Swiss Re exited New China Life Insurance.

Europe’s corporate bond buyers shied away from riskier deals on Wednesday as equity markets plunged, leaving a junk rated hybrid from SES to limp over the line while other credits fared better.

The FIG market paused on Wednesday to take stock of inflation fears and weaker market sentiment, but a pipeline of issuance is building, including Spain's Banco de Crédito Social Cooperativo (BCC), which has put out a market update after it received disparate indications of interest ahead of its return to the tier two format.

American Tower Corp, the US wireless infrastructure company, printed the biggest euro high grade corporate bond of the day on Tuesday, to finance its expansion into Europe and Latin America.

Ryanair, the Irish budget airline, landed a far more solid bond issue on Tuesday than shopping centre operator Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield had a day earlier, as both companies try to recover in sectors ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic.

Emirates NBD, the biggest bank in Dubai, has mandated banks to arrange an additional tier one (At1) deal. It will follow another bank from emirate, Dubai Islamic Bank, which recently broke records with its own AT1 transaction.

Chinese issuers Redsun Properties Group and Shandong Hi-Speed Group Co have hit the offshore bond market, grabbing a brief issuance window ahead of a public holiday on Wednesday.

Singapore’s food and agri-business Olam has raised a $1bn loan to support its acquisition of US spices and seasoning company Olde Thompson.

A senior China DCM banker from HSBC is taking a new position at CLSA, the international platform of China's Citic Securities.

Property developer China Vanke Co brought a rare investment grade-rated corporate deal to the offshore renminbi (CNH) bond market on Monday, pricing the deal inside its dollar curve after a warm response from investors.

Europe’s high grade corporate bond investors had an array of novel trades to consider on Monday, with debutants and a rare antipodean issuer marketing euro transactions.

Banco de Crédito Social Cooperativo (BCC) said on Monday that it was looking to issue a €500m tier two, which could replace all of its existing deals in the format.