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Speaking at Euromoney’s Global Borrowers conference on Tuesday, a panel of bank issuers said that investors had come to grips with the transformation of the senior asset class for the minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL). The future of subordinated debt, meanwhile, remains in flux.

Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings priced a tap on Tuesday, adding $100m to the original $400m notes on the back of 6x demand. Investors’ eagerness for paper allowed the issuer to price inside both its existing notes and secondary.

India’s Bank of Baroda met investors this week on a non-deal roadshow in Europe and Asia.

Deutsche Telekom and a group of shareholders in Scout24, the digital classified advertising group, are in the market this evening to sell a possible €341.4m stake.

The charging of four Barclays executives and the group itself on Tuesday after a UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation might, at last, satisfy the public desire to see bankers banged up. But it’s hard to see what else it will achieve.

Coentreprise de Transport d’Electricité made a statement with its inaugural bond issue on Tuesday. The holding company for the French power grid company achieved its aim of raising €2.92bn in three tranches, achieving greater size with the longer bonds.

British Telecommunications brought its second triple tranche euro bond transaction in 16 months on Tuesday. The orderbooks were heavily oversubscribed, with demand skewed toward the longest tranche.

CVC flexed its buyout muscles again this week, buying two European tech companies for more than €1bn, while Blackstone has agreed to a joint venture for its recently acquired cigarette filter making business Rhodia Acetow with a unit of US chemicals firm Celanese.

Two Indonesian financial institutions, Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) and Adira Dinamika Multi Finance, are scheduled to hit the loan market in July.

Brightoil Petroleum (Holdings) is marketing its maiden international bond, while Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings is taking bids for a tap of notes printed earlier this year. China Gold International Resources Corp, meanwhile, is meeting investors later this week for its second offshore outing.

Compass Group, the UK food service group, 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 premia were minimal.

Cyprus, entering an otherwise quiet market, has picked banks for a seven year euro benchmark to be sold on Tuesday.