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Asian Development Bank announced a seven year deal on Thursday as KfW wrapped up a $5bn 10 year that drew over $7bn of orders.

Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby has picked four banks to supply the funds for its latest loan. The size of the fundraising is around $800m and it is split into a revolver and a term loan.

Gold miner Archi Indonesia is looking to raise Rph4.6tr ($371m) from its IPO on the domestic stock exchange, with bankers on the trade confident of a good response despite launching with no cornerstones or anchor orders.

Two UK companies completed cash-box placings on Wednesday, and both found plenty of demand. Essentra, which makes small components and packaging products, raised £168.8m of new capital, while Workspace Group, the provider of serviced offices in London, raised £96.5m.

Virgin Money, the UK challenger bank backed by Richard Branson and Wilbur Ross, succeeded in pricing its IPO today, though at the bottom of the price range.

British oil and gas company BG Group issued €775m eight and €800m 15 year bonds on Wednesday, in a week of strong issuance of European investment grade corporate bonds.

Total on Wednesday priced a €1bn floating rate note and an €850m fixed rate bond, just a day after it issued a six year sterling deal.

Excitement around the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect combined with Hong Kong-listed China Unicom’s lagging share price to help Telefónica Internacional net HK$6.7bn ($859m) from the sale of a 2.5% stake in the company via a block trade on November 10, one of Asia's largest this year.

US pharmacy chain Walgreen completed the bond financing of its acquisition of Alliance Boots on Monday with sterling and euro bonds totalling some €1.5bn. Strong demand for US credits allowed the bonds to be priced tightly, with the euro tranche considerably inside Walgreen's dollar bonds, according to one lead manager.

Serco, the UK outsourcing group, had a horrible day in the stockmarket on Monday, as its shares plummeted by 32% after it announced £1.5bn of impairment charges and a £550m rights issue. After that, the shares remained stable for the next three days.

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan has ditched plans to sell some of its shares in Oil & Gas Development Corp (OGDCL) as investors shunned the paper due to discontent with the pricing.

The Hong Kong equity market has a fairly large deal to contend with on November 10 with Spanish telecom giant Telefónica Internacional in the market to sell a HK$6.78bn ($875m) stake in China Unicom (Hong Kong).