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The fourth accelerated bookbuild in China Cinda Asset Management Co this year was completed even as Greece’s seemingly never-ending debt drama raged on, with Standard Chartered Financial Holding raising HK$1.64bn ($211.29m) from a sell-down on June 24.

Indian mortgage lender Housing Development Finance Corp is wrapping up a $500m club loan with a group of five banks. The borrowing comes close on the heels of a $300m pre-funded four year facility for HDFC that launched into general only in May.

Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate raised £300m of seven year bonds on Wednesday, but divided market opinion, with some bankers saying the deal looked cheap and poorly supported.

Ahold and Delhaize, the Dutch and Belgian food retailers, will not assume new debt for their all-equity merger. But with combined syndicated credit facilities of €1.4bn, there is room for refinancing ahead.

Korea Resources Corp (KoRes) has successfully secured an additional funding of $120m with a tap to its existing notes, while China SCE Property opened books for its first outing to the dollar bond market in two and a half years.

Standard Chartered Financial Holding is offloading a 3% stake in China Cinda Asset Management Co that could raise up to HK$1.67bn ($215m), the fourth accelerated share sale in the company this year.

Santander has joined Deutsche Bank and Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the much-anticipated syndicate for International Airlines Group’s €1.4bn bridge loan to buy Aer Lingus.

The UK Debt Management Office kicked off its syndication schedule for the 2015-16 financial year with a bond that was more than two times subscribed.

ABN Amro shrugged off Greece concerns and surprised the market with a blowout tier two trade on Tuesday, drawing €8bn of orders from a starving market.

Lifestyle International Holdings broke the lull in the dollar bond market on June 19, raising $300m from an order book that was three times covered. Bankers on the deal say they wanted to avoid the cramped pipeline expected in the week of June 22 and hailed this deal as giving confidence to other dollar issuers which had been staying away due to high volatility.

Green bonds have been gaining traction globally, and as the market has picked up non-SSA names have become more active players in the eco-friendly investment space, concluded Bank of America Merrill Lynch in a quarterly update on the asset class, published on June 18.

Lifestyle International Holdings is out with what will be the first outing to the international bond market in almost three years.