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Delta Lloyd’s largest shareholder continues to oppose the Dutch insurance company’s planned rights issue, which it said on Monday was “massively dilutive” and would “unnecessarily overcapitalise the company at the expense of shareholders”.

A $700m outing proved to be another success for ICICI Bank this week, which made a strong return to the debt market amid a lack of supply from high quality Indian credits. The scarcity element of Indian names helped drum up robust demand especially from the US, allowing the lender to price its notes flat to its curve.

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan launched on Monday evening a block trade for all the shares it holds in ISS, the Danish cleaning firm.

Creditors have rejected the chance to sell to the Austrian province of Carinthia discounted bonds in Heta, the bad bank created in 2009 to dispose of the assets of Hypo Alpe Adria.

L-Bank is set to print a five year dollar benchmark as investors eagerly await the outcome of this week’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting.

Deutsche Telekom returned to the benchmark euro bond market after a three year hiatus on Monday, raising €4.5bn across three tranches.

India’s ICICI Bank is on track for its first dollar issuance of the year, having launched bookbuilding for a 10 year trade.

ArcelorMittal’s share price shot up on Friday March 11 after the Amsterdam-listed miner and steel maker set the terms for its $3bn rights issue, but then dived on Tuesday morning and though it has recovered, is now lower than last week.

A number of UK banks are expected to tender for operating company debt in the coming months, following in the footsteps of Barclays, which announced the results of its latest buyback on Wednesday.

European Central Bank president Mario Draghi did not disappoint with his latest burst of stimulus on Thursday — although some public sector bankers felt his latest efforts to boost the eurozone economy could have damaging effects on the SSA bond market.

After a string of strong syndications and auctions from the eurozone periphery during the last seven days, issuers from the region could be set to enjoy even lower yields thanks to the latest monetary stimulus package from the European Central Bank.

Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten brought a 10 year dollar benchmark this week that sparked much debate about whether other issuers would be able to follow in the tenor. Although with a flurry of other trades this week, it is clear that other options are available once next week’s US Federal Reserve meeting is held.