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The Bank of England doesn’t often follow the European Central Bank. During the financial crisis and its aftermath, the Bank was quick to cut interest rates and implement quantitative easing. The ECB was still raising rates in July 2008, and didn’t start QE until 2015.

Auto-parts business Adient on Thursday started pricing a $2bn cross-border bond, attracting high demand for a deal that could be the last high yield offering before the European market breaks for the summer.

After a successful outing in the bond market in June this year, India's Samvardhana Motherson Automotive Systems Group returned for a tap on Wednesday, in what bankers described as an opportunistic transaction.

Barclays and UBS blitzed the US market on Wednesday in a series of trades aimed at boosting levels of total loss absorbing capacity (TLAC) eligible debt.

Public sector dollar flow picked up on Wednesday after a quiet start to the week, as World Bank brought a four year benchmark and Tunisia sold a bond backed by the US government.

Primary bond activity in Asia sprang back to life on Wednesday following a slow start to the week, with high yield issuance leading the way.

Swedish Export Credit Corporation (SEK) has cancelled plans to sell a tap of its January 2019 global floating rate notes on Tuesday, due to a problem with the documentation for the reopening.

US coatings manufacturer Axalta priced its $875m dual currency offering on Tuesday as it brought this week’s second cross-border bond, at pre-Brexit pricing levels.

Advent International this week sold a second chunk of its stake in Equiniti Group, the British payments firm, after the company posted positive half year earnings on Friday.

A pair of public sector borrowers mandated banks on Monday to run small taps of dollar bonds, a theme that SSA bankers expect to run for the next few weeks.

Just one week after it issued a €1bn 15 year bond in the euro market, Vodafone swooped for sterling on Monday issuing an £800m 33 year bond.

Johnson Control’s automotive business, Adient, on Monday began a roadshow for $2bn-equivalent of high yield notes, with a 17 strong group of bookrunners.