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If the only benchmark euro deal on Thursday had been true to its roots, it would have built a waiting list rather than an order book. But demand still far outstripped supply when Italian luxury sports car manufacturer Ferrari sold its second corporate bond issue.

Wing Lung Bank, part of China Merchants Bank Group, has mandated six firms to work on a Basel III tier two dollar transaction, and will go on a roadshow in Hong Kong and Singapore.

China’s Concord New Energy Group is pursuing its debut green dollar bond.

China Power International Development has tapped Bank of America Merrill Lynch to underwrite a cash call that could raise up to HK$4.5bn ($573m) for an acquisition.

Korea Electric Power Corp has hired three bookrunners to run an investor roadshow ahead of a potential dollar-denominated green bond issuance as it looks to build a renewables portfolio in the US through acquisitions.

The SSA dollar juggernaut is set to roll into a third day, with two deals on screens for Thursday’s business. Investor appetite shows no sign of letting up, as the two deals priced on Wednesday drew large books — as was seen with a host of trades a day earlier.

Analysts expect US chipmaker Broadcom to tap as many funding markets as possible to finance its $130bn takeover of Qualcomm. Up to $12bn is likely to come from the loan market alone.

American delivery company United Postal Service made its latest annual visit to the euro corporate bond market on Wednesday, leaving with €1bn of tightly priced bonds.

Public sector borrowers have crammed more dollar deals into Tuesday than are sometimes seen in a week. But far from suffering from too much choice, investors gobbled up everything on offer — and bankers expect them to do just the same for two deals on Wednesday’s menu.

Nederlandse Waterschapsbank (NWB) launched a four year green bond on Tuesday, pricing flat to its curve and clearing the way for Agence Française de Développement (AFD) to attempt to emulate the Dutch agency’s success.

In a new sign of how hot Europe's leveraged finance market has become, Verisure, the Swedish security systems company, is seeking to raise €3.5bn of bonds and loans, partly to fund the market's biggest dividend recapitalisation this year.

On Tuesday, Spanish infrastructure operator Ferrovial tapped into demand for the enhanced yield offered by hybrid bonds and matched the second lowest coupon ever on such an instrument.