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Rabobank took advantage of tightening spreads to grab €2bn of long dated senior funding on Monday,and after the European Central Bank’s latest round of stimulus measures more banks are expected to follow this week.

India’s ICICI Bank is on track for its first dollar issuance of the year, having launched bookbuilding for a 10 year trade.

The World Bank last Friday printed in Canadian dollars for the first time in a year, seizing on strong sentiment following the European Central Bank's latest bout of monetary easing.

ArcelorMittal’s share price shot up on Friday March 11 after the Amsterdam-listed miner and steel maker set the terms for its $3bn rights issue, but then dived on Tuesday morning and though it has recovered, is now lower than last week.

Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten brought a 10 year dollar benchmark this week that sparked much debate about whether other issuers would be able to follow in the tenor. Although with a flurry of other trades this week, it is clear that other options are available once next week’s US Federal Reserve meeting is held.

The Islamic subsidiary of Turkey’s Ziraat Bank has launched a bitesize $75m murabaha deal, as the bank itself refinances $1bn of loans.

Hutchison China MediTech’s (Chi-Med) $100m IPO on the Nasdaq was oversubscribed three days into bookbuilding, even as bankers pinned their hopes on a select group of US funds.

Cemex tightened its latest deal by over 50bp from initial price thoughts as the Mexican cement company was rewarded for a conservative starting strategy with a well-oversubscribed book.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has lost a member of its equity capital markets syndicate team in Hong Kong, according to sources.

Far from a signal of returning strength in commodities, this week’s iron ore surge was due to freak activity in derivatives markets, an analyst has claimed, since daily futures volumes were equal to the annual output of big iron ore producers.

The State of North Rhine-Westphalia more than doubled the record size for a green bond from a European sub-sovereign, pricing a deal several basis points inside initial price thoughts on Wednesday.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has put a banker in its emerging markets DCM team at risk of redundancy.