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Some 54 anchor orders of more than $50m each helped Mexican oil company Pemex to raise $4bn of new bonds on Tuesday despite volatility sweeping Lat Am bond markets following a sell-off in US Treasuries.

US car rental group Hertz on Monday opened a two day roadshow for euros to refinance part of the debt of its European division and fund its operations.

Bank of Nova Scotia returned to the covered bond market for the second time this month and the sixth time this year, opening books for its second dollar benchmark of 2016 and the fifth from a Canadian issuer.

The sterling market for public sector borrowers woke from its summer slumber with a bang this week, as a series of issuers approached the currency in a variety of ways and for different reasons.

KfW this week added its name to a run of offshore renminbi issuers over the last few weeks, with investors appearing to be keen for paper that can offer a yield of over 3%.

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the US medical equipment manufacturer, on Wednesday pulled in €6.6bn of orders for a €1.6bn dual tranche transaction backing its acquisition of FEI on Wednesday.

Bank of Nova Scotia issued the first sterling fixed rate covered bond in 18 months in a larger than expected size and at a funding level that was not possible in either euros or dollars.

The European Investment Bank left bankers cheering on Thursday as it found strong demand for the first long end sterling syndication from a supranational for several years.

Two of the most familiar names in the high yield borrower base on Wednesday launched a splash of payment-in-kind notes, a rare structure which has constituted only €570m of sales this year.

Transport infrastructure group Ferrovial on Wednesday returned to the bond market after a two year absence, selling a €500m note. It was followed later in the week by two other Spanish corporates.

SIG Combibloc, the Swiss packaging firm owned by Onex, launched its second repricing request on its leveraged buyout loans with a lender call scheduled for Thursday morning New York time, as replies were due on Armacell's own repricing.

Indonesian power producer Cikarang Listrindo slashed its funding costs and extended the maturity of its debt profile with a popular $550m 10 year note priced at a 4.96% coupon — setting a new benchmark for the country’s issuers.