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The World Bank surpassed expectations by raising $3bn of four year cash on Wednesday, in what one banker away from the deal said was a "strong signal" for the dollar market.

Deutsche Post, the German courier, issued a €1.25bn dual tranche bond on Wednesday, winning a large order book as investors hurled money at the market.

State Bank of India launched its $500m fundraising into general syndication on Tuesday via eight mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners.

A trio of issuers in euros joined the sole dollar SSA benchmark deal this week in a flurry of pre-holiday activity, with a banker away from the this week's action remarking that the terrorist attacks in Belgium were likely to have a limited effect on SSA deals.

The head of equity-linked bonds at Bank of America Merrill Lynch has resigned from the firm.

The bookbuild for the initial public offering of Senvion was completed a day early, on Monday evening, and resulted in a price near the bottom of an already much lowered price range.

World Bank is looking to grab an arbitrage opportunity with a four year global bond amid a dollar market that already appears to be on its Easter holidays.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has put a co-head of EMEA capital products at risk of redundancy.

Syndication has closed for a $975m refinancing for India’s Reliance Industries, with four new lenders coming in.

Akbank signed its $1.2bn-equivalent loan on Friday - one of its two major annual refinancings. But although Turkish banks are paying more for dollar debt at the moment, European banks still like to lend in euros.

The private equity owners of German wind turbine maker Senvion have grudgingly relaunched its Frankfurt IPO, just five days after pulling it on low demand. The new deal is half the size of the earlier one, and implies a valuation €300m lower.

HeidelbergCement issued a benchmark high yield bond on Monday that was increased to €1bn and nearly three times oversubscribed.