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Guatemalan lender Banco Agromercantil added to a growing number of LatAm issuers meeting bond investors, announcing a roadshow with Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Citi on Monday.

Noble Group, a supplier of agricultural and energy products, metals and minerals, hit the market on March 24 with a $1.35bn 364-day revolving loan facility, led by an 18-member arranging group.

Peruvian real estate company Portales and Brazilian meatpacker Minerva announced roadshows at the end of last week as LatAm continues to enjoy strong borrowing conditions despite a more hawkish US Federal Reserve.

Pactera Technology International raised $275m for what will be the first LBO financed by a high yield bond with the proceeds used to as part of the financing towards The Blackstone Group buyout of the firm.

Latin America’s Banco do Brasil has wrapped up its $1bn financing, which first hit the market in mid-January.

Mizuho printed the first ever Basel III compliant offering by a Japanese bank on Thursday raising $1.5bn in one of Asia Pacific’s biggest bank capital offerings under the new regime. The borrower even managed to price the bond to flat to its Basel II curve thanks to the country’s investor friendly PONV regime.

Investors from Europe, the Middle East and Africa rushed to buy the International Finance Corporation's second ever sale of London-listed renminbi bonds this week. The deal, a tap of three year notes, was a sign of growing international interest in the currency, according to the issuer.

Lloyds Bank has completed the non-US portion of its exchange of tier two capital instruments for CRD IV-compliant additional tier one, and succeeded in increasing the capital raising.

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken and Macquarie Bank kept Yankee supply flowing with well received benchmark trades this week as the biggest banks in the US awaited the results of annual stress tests.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has appointed Laurent Guyot as its new managing director in FIG DCM, shortly after the departures of Julia Hoggett and Daniel Bell, head of financials flow financing and new products respectively.

Three months after the deal, luxury jacket maker Moncler’s Milan IPO is still seen as one of the most successful transactions of 2013.

Mizuho launched the first ever Basel III compliant offering by a Japanese bank on Thursday, with initial price thoughts driven mainly by investor feedback.