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With most European markets in summer slowdown mode, UK-headquartered hotelier Intercontinental Hotels tapped the sterling market on Tuesday for a £350m bond.

Financiera Independencia (Findep), the Mexican microfinance lender, has closed a tender offer for its 7.5% senior notes due 2019 after an extension to the early bird deadline did little to increase the uptake.

NRW.Bank will on Tuesday become the latest public sector borrower to enter a super strong dollar market that shows no sign of shutting down for the summer, after the German agency mandated banks on Monday.

Dutch telecoms firm Ziggo made a bumper increase to its $1.6bn refinancing earlier this week, more than doubling the size of the loans offered and stunning some investors.

A power plant construction firm from Indonesia and an equipment and infrastructure finance company from India are raising debt worth a collective $125m.

Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba) priced the third dollar Pfandbrief benchmark of the year and is expected to be followed by a succession of dollar trades later in the year.

With sterling spreads tightening and foreign investors showing increasing interest, both HSBC and BNP Paribas looked to take advantage of funding opportunities in the UK bond market this week.

Cineworld, Europe's second largest cinema operator, has increased the size of its revolving credit facility by £25m to fund its acquisition of five UK cinema sites.

One of the longest running and most painful sagas in global leveraged finance came to an end this week when high yield investors on Wednesday accepted Veritas Technologies’ €600m-equivalent secured seven year non-call three senior bond eight months after it was first launched. Victor Jimenez reports.

KfW tapped a A$2.1bn 4% January 2019 bond on Wednesday for A$200m ($154.4m), as KommuneKredit reopened a A$215m 2.9% November 2026 for A$25m.

Places for People, the UK housing company, on Wednesday sold £400m ($519.35m) of bonds with orders more than 2.5 times the offering size, despite tapping the market just two weeks after Moody’s cut its rating to A3.

Shell made a quick move from publishing earnings results to issuing a dual tranche bond on Wednesday, the euro market’s only investment grade corporate deal of the week.