Morgan Stanley

Hong Kong developer Pacific Century Premium Developments (PCPD) printed a $700m deal on Tuesday as part of its efforts to tender a 2022 bond.

UP Fintech Holding has launched a follow-on offering of new American depositary shares (ADS) worth around $173.5m.

Buyers piled into a debut sustainability-linked bond from Italian oil major Eni on Monday, despite there being some pushback from investors over higher polluting issuers coming to the ESG markets.

Piraeus is set to become the first Greek bank to print an additional tier one (AT1) bond — the next step in its capital plan after the closing of its €1.4bn equity raise last month.

Chinese online recruitment company Kanzhun has hit the road with an up to $912m Nasdaq listing.

Europe’s corporate bond market has seen an influx of ESG deals from highly polluting sectors, testing how much environmentally and socially conscious investors buy into firms' transition stories.

The French Community of Belgium (LCFB) sold its first social bond under its new social finance framework on Wednesday.

Bank borrowers were making good use of a narrow issuance window this week, drawing on the support of smaller sized but higher quality order books to command tight pricing in euros.

Unrated Portugeuse insurer Fidelidade resurrected its plans to print a tier two bond on Friday – almost three years after its first attempt at accessing the format.

Prospects for companies to issue more social bonds rose this week, with the debut issue by Electricité de France, a borrower with a long and influential track record in the green bond market.

Mamoura Diversified Global Holding sold a dual tranche dollar bond featuring a Formosa tranche on Thursday. Formosa bonds have been gaining traction among Middle East issuers as they seek to tap into Asian investor demand.

AstraZeneca, the UK drug company, showed the eager demand for merger and acquisition financings this week when it achieved ultra-tight pricing on a $7bn bond issue to fund its acquisition of US biotech firm Alexion Pharmaceuticals.