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Another stellar week for equity block trades in EMEA finished on Thursday night with the launch of a €1.5bn sale of shares in ABN Amro by the Dutch government, making this the biggest week of the year for blocks in EMEA.

Ahold Delhaize, the Dutch supermarket company, was the only IG corporate issuer to price a deal on Tuesday. But unlike the five triple-B rated issuers on Monday, the food retailer paid a single digit new issue premium.

GIMA TT, the tobacco packaging machinery division of IMA, has set the terms for its IPO on Borsa Italiana, which could value it at up to €1.1bn.

Bank of America was looking to issue floating rate notes in an undersupplied part of the curve on Thursday, fresh from a funding splurge in the dollar market.

South Korea’s Shinhan Bank braved the dollar market on Wednesday for the second time this year, hoping to secure a new Basel III tier two dollar bond while North Korea-related volatility looked quiet.

South Korean private equity firm JKL Partners has raised W170.3bn ($150.3m) after offloading a chunk of shares in Pan Ocean Co, with an early non-deal roadshow putting the deal on a solid footing.

Kommuninvest is set to complete a trio of three year dollar benchmarks from SSAs this week, after Nordic Investment Bank comfortably priced in the tenor on Wednesday.

South Korean asset manager Poseidon 2014 has launched an up to W174.1bn ($154.3m) block sale of shares in shipping services provider Pan Ocean Co.

South Korea’s Shinhan Bank is set for a new Basel III tier two dollar bond, as it markets a transaction that mirrors its debut 18 months ago.

Japanese telecoms company SoftBank has done it again. On Tuesday, it replicated its 2015 success of a €4.5bn bond issued outside of the US high yield market with a new €4.75bn issue.

Three borrowers came to market for dollar paper on Tuesday and another hit screens announcing a transaction on Wednesday, as bankers reported strong conditions in the currency.

Austria has become the first eurozone sovereign to syndicate a 100 year bond, selling €3.5bn to investors desperate to pile cash into ultra-long paper.