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South Korea’s KEB Hana Bank has gone live with the first international bond since its merger, launching a dollar deal on Wednesday morning.

Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten (BNG) is the first SSA borrower this week to brave the dollar bond market as tricky conditions in other markets make life tough for issuers.

Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank Group, the UK mid-sized bank being spun off by National Australia Bank, has set the price range for its London IPO at a level that it hopes will prove compelling to investors in spite of market volatility.

IDBI Bank’s top management are doing the rounds with investors as they try to drum up interest for a Rp38bn ($561.3m) qualified institutional placement.

Chinese company Haier has enlisted three lenders to fund its $5.4bn acquisition of Kentucky headquartered GE Appliances.

Ascential and Countryside Properties this week swelled the ranks of London’s declared IPO hopefuls, which already included CMC Markets and CYBG, as the UK ramps up to what is expected to be a busy IPO season.

Anheuser-Busch InBev’s $46bn seven tranche bond issue this week defied expectations that the brewer would have to pay up to finance its takeover of SAB Miller. InBev took out nearly two-thirds of its acquisition financing in one go.

A strong start to public sector dollar issuance in 2016 fell away this week, as volatile swap spreads returned and worries over the health of the Chinese economy made printing further along the curve difficult.

Euro issuance had been subdued this week, with issuers reluctant to clash with AB InBev's $46bn deal, but it picked up hours before the brewer's launch on Wednesday.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is moving back to a co-head structure for its Asia Pacific global corporate and investment banking unit, with Elif Bilgi Zapparoli promoted to the role, according to a memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia.

CYBG, the UK mid-sized bank owned by National Australia Bank, will start building the book for its initial public offering in London next week.

The Japan Bank for International Cooperation priced a 10 year benchmark while the Province of Ontario placed a three year bond on Wednesday. Both issuers impressed bankers away from the trades, coming as they did amid difficult conditions.