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KfW named on Tuesday the banks it has hired to lead a three year dollar trade, its first in the currency since August.

The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the Société de Financement Local (SFIL) sold benchmark debt to an increasingly welcoming market for euro-denominated paper on Tuesday.

Telefónica returned to the euro bond market after only a month with a more vanilla offering than its last issue, a hybrid bond, as investors favoured the shorter piece of its dual tranche offering.

Snam, the Italian gas utility, issued a €1.25bn 10 year bond on Monday, winning praise from bankers away from the deal as it printed with no new issue premium.

With one quarter left of 2016 to go and global issuance 22% down, the equity capital markets bookrunner race is going into its final straight. Familiar faces are leading the pack, but incumbents in general are having a tough year.

The recent surge of primary action in European high yield suffered a blow on Monday when Verallia pulled its €500m pay-if-you-can (PIYC) bond. But the market trotted on and kept its momentum.

Air Liquide's €3.28bn rights issue, the biggest in the world last year, was a blowout success.

The Republic of Namibia, which has outlined plans to issue around $5bn of loans and bonds over the next 10 years, is to undertake a non-deal roadshow with fixed income investors in the US and UK.

Electricité de France tapped three different European investor bases in one go on Thursday as it hit the euro, Swissie and green markets for €3.1bn-equivalent of bonds.

French agency Société de Financement Local will launch on Tuesday its first ever syndication.

Misys, the UK banking software company owned by Vista Capital Partners, will make its return to the London Stock Exchange via an IPO in early November, the company said in an intention-to-float document on Thursday morning.

MTN Group, the South African telecoms company, priced $1bn of five and 10 year bonds on Wednesday in line with initial guidance that some investors said was generous.