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China Jianyin Investment (JIC), an equity investment group, launched a euro-dollar combo transaction on Thursday morning, its first international debt offering.

World Bank on Tuesday added to a spate of 10 year dollar benchmark issuance over the last few weeks and set a new pricing marker in the tenor as it printed at the tightest spread of the year.

The last time British Telecommunications sold sterling bonds, the global financial crisis was still beyond the horizon. It returned on Tuesday after more than 10 years only issuing in euros and dollars, but investors were not as welcoming as the issuer may have expected.

CVC and Ardian charged up the leveraged loan deal pipeline with new buyouts of European businesses in Ireland, Greece and Spain this week. A strengthening European economy is likely to attract more, said market participants.

Investors in green corporate bonds had two very different deals offered to them on Tuesday. Spanish utility Iberdrola sold a green hybrid bond, while Toyota Motor Credit Corp, Toyota’s auto finance subsidiary, offered a long 3.5 year green tranche alongside a seven year non-green tranche.

World Bank will bring the latest test for a wall of dollars waiting to tumble into the SSA bond market, after mandating banks on Monday to bring a 10 year global benchmark. The trade could be the first jumbo 10 year dollar deal from an SSA in well over two years — and bankers away from the deal expect it to fly.

A rush of consolidation has swept through Europe’s payments processing industry in the past six months and the financing for two of the deals, the acquisitions of Nets and Paysafe, hit the leveraged finance market this week.

Sabre Insurance, the UK car insurance company, will attempt to list on the London Stock Exchange this autumn, having filed an intention to float document on Monday.

UK telecoms firm Virgin Media increased its sterling loan offering on Friday, as recovering leveraged finance issuance in the currency seems to be leaving Brexit strains behind.

Bakkavor, the UK fresh food company, has completed its £260m IPO on the London Stock Exchange, a week after it withdrew the deal, blaming poor market conditions.

China Minsheng Banking Corp sealed a fixed-floating combination bond on Thursday, with the help of a 19-strong syndicate.

Siam Commercial Bank closed its second dollar deal of the year on Thursday, leveraging on its rarity value as a Thai credit in the debt market, while also navigating a surprise hiccup near the end of bookbuilding.