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Likely faced with an assault course of volatility inducing events this year, emerging market issuers will be keen to raise cash early before Brexit/Trump/rate rises/European elections (delete as appropriate) come to blight the market.

KommuneKredit and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will reopen the dollar market for SSA borrowers on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the EIB is lining up to perform the same service in sterling bonds.

The UK’s decision to leave the European Union cast extreme uncertainty over the economy, the values and even the unity of the country. Its ramifications for domestic companies’ financing capabilities has been both more obvious and more benign, however. Max Bower reports.

Lloyds’ purchase of Bank of America’s credit card business MBNA will hit its common equity tier one ratio, but analysts believe the 80bp decline in will be "easily manageable".

Four European lenders have turned down a $2bn loan for National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), while local banks are starting to return to secondary markets for the first time in a year — signs that the Middle Eastern loan market could see a different set of banks driving it in 2017. Elly Whittaker reports.

US data centre firm Equinix has doubled the size of its euro term loan offering to €1bn, as it looks to acquire 29 data facilities from Verizon for $3.6bn, even as one investor noted an unusual 50% collateral cap on the firm’s secured debt.

National Bank of Abu Dhabi signed a $2bn three year loan on Tuesday, cementing the bank group for its $175bn merger with First Gulf Bank, though some key European banks turned down a role on the deal.

Deutsche Telekom and Hellman & Friedman have sold a 6.5% stake in Scout24, the German classified advertising website company, for €224m, through an accelerated bookbuild launched on Monday night.

US based-Novelis, part of Indian company Aditya Birla Group, has lined up a syndicate of 10 lenders to arrange an Asia loan that refinances a $1.8bn US term loan B from last year.

Four local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) ventured into the debt market last Friday, raising a combined $615m. The high yield issuers flocked out to take advantage of regulatory approvals that will expire at the end of the year.

China's Tewoo Group snapped up $300m Thursday, leveraging off its appeal as an investment grade name with an international presence.

Two firms with Asian links canned their US floats this week, with InnoLight Technology Corp and Ironshore announcing they have dropped their listing plans.