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Latvia has provided the only point of CEEMEA new issue activity this week so far, though the sovereign is shifting out of the emerging market universe.

India’s Dewan Housing Finance held a non-deal roadshow in Taipei on December 9 just a few weeks after sealing an offshore dollar loan.

Corporate treasurers across Europe will be thanking Daimler today, as the German car maker took the lead on Tuesday and showed that the bond market is wide open for deals.

India’s Reliance Industries has selected a group of 13 lenders for a $1bn loan that will refinance a borrowing raised in 2010.

The African Development Bank is set to bring a green bond as the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris (COP21) nears its end.

Air Liquide and Saipem loans show that bankers and borrowers are not yet slowing down as they seek to tie up remaining bumper deals they launched in a busy fourth quarter.

Latvia on Tuesday sold €550m 0.5% December 2020s from a book of €1.6bn, in conjunction with a buyback of its old dollar debt, switching out some of its traditional EM investor base for new rates buyers.

Westpac was set to print its second foreign currency deal in as many days on Tuesday, but some bankers said the borrower ran into difficulties in euros.

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American Honda Finance has visited the sterling bond market for a £250m seven year deal, its inaugural offering in the currency.

Entertainment One, the FTSE 250 UK media company, priced £285m of senior secured notes at the tight end of price talk on Friday (December 4), after finishing a five day roadshow.

Russian steel company Evraz is roadshowing a Reg S senior unsecured dollar bond through six active bookrunners and two passive, in tandem with a tender offer.