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India’s Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone fought rocky markets on Thursday afternoon in Asia to seal a 10 year and one month $500m bond.

Samvardhana Motherson Automotive Systems Group is seeking €300m from a seven year bullet.

British Telecommunications and Coentreprise de Transport d’Electricité launched triple tranche bond deals on Tuesday, with demand skewed towards the longer tranches.

Compass Group, the UK food service company, offered investors a choice of main courses on Monday, combining a €750m seven year bond with a £300m 12 year. Demand was plentiful for both and the new issue premiums were minimal.

Reckitt Benckiser racked up $16bn in orders as it printed a four tranche bond to fund its purchase of US baby food maker Mead Johnson in an otherwise subdued week for corporate issuers in the US.

Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane was the only issuer in the corporate bond market on Thursday. The Italian railway operator's eight year €1bn deal followed a European roadshow last week and took a similar path to other deals this week.

South Africa-based media group Naspers is looking to add to what has been the busiest month for African issuance since July 2014 but an oil-related sell-off this week suggests that the company may have missed the golden window.

As Barclays’ head of leveraged capital markets leaves, the bank has engaged in a hiring effort to keep its leverage finance business “on top of the game”, sources told GlobalCapital.

India’s Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) has mandated banks for a green dollar bond, a first for the company.

Property names China Jinmao Holdings Group and Shimao Property Holdings, along with India’s Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, launched new dollar deals on Thursday.

Atlas Mara, the London-listed company co-founded by Bob Diamond that invests in African financial services, announced a $200m equity capital raising on Wednesday, most of which will be taken up by Fairfax Africa Holdings Corp.

An overnight share sale in Scout24, the Berlin-based digital classified advertising group, was priced at a 6% discount on Tuesday, raising €331.7m for the vendors.