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Delta Lloyd, the Dutch insurance company, bowed to investor pressure and cut the size of its planned rights issue by a third on Wednesday, to €650m.

A Dutch agency has become the latest public sector borrower to dip into a record breaking sterling market for the year so far, after mandating banks on Wednesday for a deal.

LyondellBasell Industries, the Dutch/US petrochemical producer, emerged as the only corporate bond deal on Wednesday, offering a six year benchmark transaction.

Genus, the bovine and porcine genetics company, retained all of its relationship banks when it signed a £160m revolving credit facility on Monday.

Russian Railways is offering to buy back up to €150m of its €1bn 3.374% 2021s.

The Singapore government’s investment arm Temasek Holdings ventured into the euro-denominated bond market for the first time this week with a dual tranche offering driven by reverse enquiry.

Any fears that investors might be nervous about sterling bonds in the run-up to the UK’s referendum on European Union membership eased with a pair of deals on Tuesday.

NL Financial Investments, the Dutch state agency, has named bookrunners for the IPO of insurer ASR, having already chosen the global co-ordinators earlier this year.

Mark Bamford, head of global fixed income syndicate, is leaving the firm, and several promotions have been made to fill the gap. Fixed income syndicate has also been transferred out of fixed income and given its own risk reporting.

India’s National Thermal Power Corp (NTPC) ended an absence of more than a year from the international bond market this week with a tightly priced transaction that left little money on the table for investors.

A plunge in sterling’s value on Monday after the UK government picked a date for the country’s European Union membership is unlikely to stop SSAs adding to a record breaking year in the currency so far, said bankers.

Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings (CKI) is on track for a comeback to the dollar hybrid bond market, while India’s National Thermal Power Corp kicked off bookbuilding for a 10 year Reg S offering on Monday.