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Adani Transmission has kicked off a series of investor meetings in Asia, Europe and the US to test appetite for an offshore rupee denominated note or Masala bond.

The Republic of Paraguay was the only Latin American borrower to sell bonds in a short Easter week for much of the region, as conditions continue to improve for new issues.

Cairn Homes, the Irish housebuilder that floated in London for €440m last June, completed its second post-IPO capital raising this week, raising €175m to buy further land for development.

Delta Lloyd, which last week won a shareholder vote to execute a rights issue despite public criticism of the deal from some of its investors, on Wednesday released details of the trade.

With the dollar market taking an early Easter holiday, the World Bank came through as the sole issuer to print in the currency, hitting $3bn in an arbitrage trade that was heralded as a “strong signal” of the health of the dollar market.

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.