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Hypo Tirol overcame lingering concerns in the aftermath of the Heta Asset Resolution debacle to issue an oversubscribed and relatively well distributed five year Pfandbrief on Thursday.

The extraordinary sight of a German public sector borrower pulling a syndication mid-week led not only led to criticism of the deal’s execution but also reawakened fears over banks' diminishing ability to take down and warehouse sovereign and sub-sovereign bonds. Craig McGlashan reports.

Caixabank issued its largest Cédulas in five years on Monday. It was also the biggest since 2014 and enticed more investors than any Spanish deal in three years.

Kommunalbanken showed there is scope for action in the belly of the dollar curve with the first five year benchmark in the currency for three weeks, but longer dated deals still appear out of reach.

Home Depot brought some much needed relief to the dollar market this week with a $3bn print that demonstrated that investors are prepared to deploy cash for high quality names.

The UK higher education sector maintained its love affair with capital markets this week, as the University of Leeds announced a roadshow for its debut bond.

Barclays will offload a legacy derivatives portfolio to JP Morgan as part of the British bank's plans to run down its non-core assets.

The rare sight of a pulled German bond issue rocked the SSA market Wednesday afternoon. The issuer blamed market conditions but there were rumblings that this was a failure of process, not context.

The European Investment Bank and Nederlandse Waterschapsbank priced deals on a day in which another issuer pulled a trade.

The wave of Chinese acquisitions of Western companies has reached a new peak, with confirmation that state-owned ChemChina has sealed the deal to buy Syngenta, the Swiss agrichemicals and seeds business, for $43bn, as China seeks to secure its food supply.

As the euro investment grade corporate bond market approached nearly three weeks without a new issue, EasyJet broke the silence on Tuesday with its long-awaited debut bond.

Countryside Properties, the UK house and flat developer, could float between 30% and 50% of its stock in London, in an IPO that would give it a valuation of £1.125bn at mid-range.