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China Cinda Asset Management opened the books for a Reg S/ 144A dual tranche issue on Wednesday morning. Despite the complex nature of the issuer’s business, dealers are optimistic that the transaction will be able to overcome the challenges that China Orient Asset Management faced last year.

Brazilian lender Caixa Econômica Federal’s latest bond issue on Tuesday showed that concerns about the government’s use of state banks to increase economic growth are not preventing these institutions from capitalising on consistent demand for LatAm debt.

Quick, list three things you would absolutely not want to do with your weekend. If you said you’d rather not go to Cardiff to compete in a gruelling pan-European fitness competition, well done on your weirdly specific response. But that’s exactly what Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s David Pepper did on the last weekend of April, and if Pepper is anything like Loan Ranger, it was probably just done to make the rest of us look bad.

ANZ, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and RBS have been mandated on a $205m refinancing loan for Khopoli Investments, a subsidiary of India’s Tata Power, according to bankers on the trade.

Chinese real estate developer Fantasia Holdings has filed its A-1 to spin off its property management business — Colour Life Group — onto the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Two more instalments in the unfolding saga of the corporate floating rate note appeared this week, with a €500m 4.9 year deal by Société des Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhône on Tuesday and a €300m three year by Volkswagen Bank on Wednesday.

Coca-Cola Enterprises launched a €250m bond on Monday that was priced exceptionally tightly. That is not unusual for the issuer, but it was helped by the very slight issuance of euro corporate bonds for the past fortnight.

The prospect of Pfizer sweetening its takeover bid for UK rival AstraZeneca to £64bn ($108bn) or more is raising expectations of a jumbo bond financing by the US pharmaceuticals major.

The bank is reaching the end of its investment banking rebuild in Europe with a resurgence in its M&A business, writes David Rothnie.

Volkswagen Bank launched a €300m three year floating rate note today that, while hardly a blowout, achieved its objective of tight pricing, bankers said.

French geosciences firm CGG came to the high yield bond market for the second time in less than a fortnight on Monday, following its euro debut with a return to dollars.

Korea Resources Corporation (KoRes) priced a five year transaction on Tuesday night. The issuer will be using the proceeds to repay a project financing facility for a mining project in Mexico.