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Santander and BNP Paribas printed their first dollar trades of 2014 as demand for investment grade paper continued its strong run.

Verizon Communications brought back memories of its $49bn record-breaking bond in September with a $4.5bn offering this week that sucked in nearly $23bn of orders.

Crédito Real underlined the strong market conditions Latin American borrowers are enjoying in March after a barren February, wasting no time in tapping a bond it issued less than a week ago.

The high yield bond flurry by Spanish issuers carried on this week, with strong issues from two debut borrowers. Solid demand allowed Grupo Isolux Corsan to increase its bond by €200m, while Grupo Antolin-Irausa accelerated its deal by a day.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s European debt team has lost four managing directors in three weeks, with Julia Hoggett, the head of short term fixed income origination, covered bonds and FIG flow financing, the latest to announce her departure.

Matomy, a digital marketing firm based in Israel, launched a London IPO on Monday, giving encouragement to the UK's aim to bring more technology listings to the country.

State Bank of India is due to launch a $390m loan into syndication soon, increasing the size from the original $300m. At one point the loan was on track to be $420m, but this was scuppered when one lender dropped out of the top level.

LatAm syndicate bankers say they believe this week’s three deals from financial issuers is a sign of more supply to come from the sector as Brazil’s Banco Daycoval received such strong demand that it printed $500m having originally been intending to sell a below benchmark size deal.

Julia Hoggett is leaving Bank of America Merrill Lynch to join the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), to run the investment banking supervision division, starting in early May. Her departure follows a string of high profile exits from the firm.

First time issuer Pactera Technology International is on the road for a senior secured dollar bond which it will use as part of the financing towards The Blackstone Group consortium’s proposed leveraged buyout of the firm.

Mexican microfinance company Crédito Real will buy back at least $180.7m of its $210m of outstanding bonds due 2015 after bondholders owning 86.06% of the notes tendered their debt.

Peru’s fourth largest bank Interbank was able to tighten pricing on its new 15 year subordinated bond as investors piled in to allow the borrower to print $300m of fixed to floating rate tier two notes.