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Investors piled into a new hybrid bond for hotel group Accor this week to oversubscribe the €500m deal by almost six times. The demand reflected a ramping up of the hunt for yield as the European Central Bank stokes the fires of its corporate bond buying programme.

AerCap Holdings has amended and extended its revolving credit facility, with the Dutch aircraft leasing company bumping up the size of the deal to $4bn and stretching out the maturity.

The University of Nottingham is looking to sell US private placements, according to market sources, becoming the third UK university to enter the private debt market this year.

Royal Bank of Canada was able to raise £400m of senior funding as though it was on 'autopilot' in the sterling market this week. It is the third Canadian issuer in a month to seek funding in this currency counting as total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC).

Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) met investors this week to discuss a debut sale of additional tier one (AT1) bonds. Changes in regulation are prompting issuers to seek new deals in the asset class to optimise their capital layers.

Banco BPM extended the run of recent Italian bank bond supply this week, launching a preferred senior bond. The deal was launched at 200bp over mid-swaps and did not offer a new issue premium to investors, according to a banker on the deal.

Bank of America became the first big US bank to emerge from third quarter earnings blackout and tap the dollar bond market this week.

E.On and Engie pushed ahead with tightly priced deals on Thursday, easing concerns from earlier in the week that ZF Freidrichshafen’s widely priced bonds would create a new level for issuance.

Chinese real estate company Kaisa Group Holdings chose to go down the 144A route for its latest bond, raising $400m from a deal that hit the higher end of its size expectations. But bankers say it is unlikely many issuers will follow suit. Addison Gong reports.

Chinese real estate company Kaisa Group Holdings chose to go down the 144A route for its latest bond, raising $400m from a deal that hit the higher end of its size expectations.

India oil refining and petrochemical company HPCL-Mittal Energy found support for its $300m bond sale on Tuesday, after offering investors a generous premium.

Germany’s Deutsche Bahn printed a €2bn dual tranche hybrid trade on Monday, with bankers off the deal heaping accolades on the borrower.