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After over a month with no Obligations Foncières supply, Caisse Française de Financement Local (Caffil) and Compagnie de Financement Foncier (CFF) returned to the primary covered bond market on Monday.

Immofinanz sold €171m of shares in residential property developer Buwog on Wednesday night, in what a banker said was the only block trade to hit the screens before the European Central Bank monetary policy meeting on Thursday.

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Israel printed a new 10 year bond and a tap of 2043s on Wednesday with only a small new issue concession and some of the biggest books seen so far this year for a CEEMEA bond.

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

Indian Oil Corp and Bharat Petroleum Corp have launched their respective borrowings, worth a collective $580m, into general syndication. Both are offering the same base margin, but the latter is being generous with its all-ins for new banks.

India's Dewan Housing Finance Corp is tapping the loan market for a $100m financing, three months after it held a non-deal roadshow in Asia.

India’s Dewan Housing Finance Corp is gearing up for the country’s first offshore rupee-denominated bond, also known as a Masala bond, having mandated four banks to handle the market-opening transaction.

Council of Europe Development Bank and World Bank on Wednesday added to a strong week from public sector borrowers in the dollar market ahead of a vitally important US Federal Reserve meeting.

Israel has tightened price guidance on its 2043s tap and new 10 year bond, both in dollars, in the hope of printing the deal later on Wednesday.

Emerging market issuers were busy locking down funding through all avenues this week. The CEEMEA and Latin America bond markets are churning out deals while the main focus in loans is on a jumbo transaction for Saudi Arabia.

All bonds great and small from the Iberian market were available on Tuesday, as the Spanish sovereign brought a long-awaited 30 year syndication and the Community of the Basque Country made a rare visit to the market.