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Investors looked beyond Nanyang Commercial Bank's Hong Kong home to its Chinese parent this week, allowing the borrower to close a $700m Basel III-compliant tier two subordinated deal, despite the protests happening in the city.

India’s Tata Motors was dealt a blow by the market on Wednesday, as it was forced to contend with protests in Hong Kong as it tried to sell a dollar bond.

State Bank of India is looking to raise about Rp80bn ($1.1bn) by selling a minority stake in SBI Cards’ planned jumbo IPO, according to a banker on the mandate.

Ball Corporation, a US metal packaging and aerospace technology company, is looking to cut its financing costs with a €900m issue of senior unsecured notes. Crown, its closest peer in metal packaging, set a new floor — just 0.75% — for high yield coupons in Europe in October.

High grade dollar bond investors are braced for the biggest deal of the year after AbbVie, the pharmaceutical company, appointed a trio of banks to lead a possible $25bn issue that could come as soon as Monday.

Colgate Palmolive and Boston Scientific Corp printed €1.9bn of bonds this week, the latest US companies in the line to issue euro debt.

Germany’s Bayer took a cautious approach to issuing a €1.75bn dual tranche hybrid capital issue on Thursday, but despite the huge litigation battle it is facing, yield-hungry investors piled into the deal, pushing the book above €10bn and enabling Bayer to chop a fat slice off the yields.

Boston Scientific Corp, the US medical devices maker, obtained plenty of demand for its €900m bond as it made its debut in the Reverse Yankee market on Wednesday, while the euro corporate bond pipeline continues to fill for a flurry of issuance in November.

South Korean steel company Posco checked every box for investors with its $500m bond issuance on Monday. Even though the deal offered no new issue premium and pricing was tightened aggressively, buy-side support did not waver, said bankers.

Hutchison Port Holdings Trust seized the market window immediately after the Federal Open Market Committee meeting to sell a $500m five year bond on Thursday.

UBS lets go of ECM bankers — Bank of America’s Coben to return after Twitter investigation — Macquarie closes cash equities business in Europe and US

Dollar volumes proved higher than expected as the US investment grade market roared back to life following earnings blackouts, with a string of front-loaded deals ahead of the Fed’s meeting on Wednesday.