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Yapi Kredi Bankasi opened books on a seven year note on Tuesday morning, offering a 20bp premium at initial price thoughts.

A diverse group of issuers headed to the dollar debt market on Tuesday, with a Chinese local government financing vehicle, a Singaporean real estate firm and a South Korean telephone company vying for investor attention.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has announced its intention to sell a dollar denominated green bond.

Citigroup has appointed two bankers to head its strategic equity solutions (SES) business for EMEA, including one it has hired from Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Four banks will underwrite the $1.25bn loan for UK investment firm Melrose's acquisition of Nortek of the US. It is the largest acquisition announced by a UK company since the country voted to leave the EU on June 23.

Telefónica Internacional carried out the second weekend block trade of the year to raise HK$2.82bn ($363.43m) for its China Unicom sell-down, and the unusual timing worked in the vendor’s favour.

Warehouse developer China Logistics Property Holdings Co has added HK$3.4bn ($438.3m) to its coffers after sealing a Hong Kong IPO at the top of price guidance, according to a source close to the deal.

ICBC Luxembourg became the Chinese lender’s fourth overseas unit to issue a fixed rate dollar bond this year, raising $800m from a three year offering.

Hong Kong Telecommunications (HKT) stood out in what was a very crowded Thursday for the Asia ex-Japan dollar bond market, pricing the region’s tightest triple B rated 10 year bond.

The Asia ex-Japan additional tier one market could finally be getting some action with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) set to go on the road next week for its debut AT1.

At the end of the first half of this year, the top three banks for CEEMEA have remained staunchly in place from last year, with Citi leading the pack, but there has been a shake-up further down the table. Bank of America Merrill Lynch has entered the top 10 in fifth position and French houses BNP Paribas and Société Générale have fallen to ninth and 10th, respectively.

UK investors eager for North American exposure rushed to buy into Melrose Industries on Wednesday, pushing its shares up 46%, after it announced a heavily dilutive £1.655bn rights issue to finance the acquisition of Nortek, a US maker of heating and air conditioning systems.