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Kommunalbanken is readying a five year bond in what will be the first dollar benchmark in the tenor for three weeks. Meanwhile, European Investment Bank priced a more conservative three year bond.

As the euro investment grade corporate bond market approached nearly three weeks without a new issue, EasyJet broke the silence on Tuesday with its long-awaited debut bond.

Acadia, the US psychiatric and behavioural healthcare provider, closed its $955m term loan facility on Thursday after first adding, then removing, a sterling tranche.

National Bank of Abu Dhabi has mandated six banks for investor meetings starting February 8.

Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) started building books for its second green bond on Tuesday, almost three years after selling its debut. That green bond was not only the borrower’s first, but Asia’s inaugural offering.

Ascential, the information and events business formerly known as Top Right Group and Emap, has got its London IPO covered.

Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank Group was due to close the book for its IPO at 2pm on Monday, having put out a final message to inform investors that orders below 180p a share risked missing out. At that level, the deal size would be £397.5m.

Volatility has pushed FIG senior supply to its lowest January total since 2008, but a resilient covered bond market profited from the gloom, with issuance at its strongest since 2012.

Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank Group, the UK mid-sized bank being spun off by National Australia Bank, has tightened the price range of its London initial public offering to the low end.

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to find positives in equity capital markets this year so far. Not since 1995 have so few deals been issued in the first 27 days of January, and this week an IPO collapsed. Hope for the few deals left in the market lies in deep discounting, writes Olivier Holmey.

Ascential, the information and events business formerly known as Top Right Group and Emap, on Thursday started building the book for a London IPO that could give it a market capitalisation of up to £880m.

China Railway Rolling Stock Corp hit the equity-linked market this week for $600m, becoming only the second firm to print an H-share CB in Asia since 2007. The deal, which follows a similar issue from a Chinese peer earlier this month, has set in motion the transition from a rare deal type into a regular funding option.