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UK broadcaster Sky has issued its first floating rate note, a €600m five year.

German automotive supplier Schaeffler AG on Thursday announced a €1.5bn-equivalent dual currency three tranche bond issue, designed to opportunistically refinance high coupon debt.

The additional tier one market took on another entrant on Thursday with the launch of Standard Chartered’s debut, which brought in a book size reminiscent of the halcyon days of the asset class in late 2013 and early 2014.

Jordanian pharma company Hikma Pharmaceuticals is meeting investors for its inaugural bond, and the first senior unsecured bond from Jordan since 2010.

Standard Chartered started taking orders from investors for its first ever additional tier one (AT1) bond on Thursday, having gauged investor sentiment in Asia, Europe and US earlier in the week.

The AA, formerly the Automobile Association, the UK car breakdown assistance group, on Wednesday began marketing £735m of class 'B' notes.

Anglo American, the London-headquartered South African mining company, has issued a €600m five year bond.

Teva Pharmaceuticals priced its largest euro-denominated bond on Tuesday with a dual tranche eight and 12 year which came roughly flat to the dollar equivalent, according to bankers.

Aabar Investments, the Abu Dhabi investment group, raised €2bn with its second exchangeable bond on Tuesday, to repay a €1.25bn exchangeable into Daimler shares it issued in 2011.

Spain hit the euro market on Tuesday to sell its second 15 year syndication of 2015, following up a conventional deal earlier in the year with its third ever syndicated linker.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is out in the market with a dual tranche euro-denominated bond. Bankers expected the deal to be priced flat to the borrower’s dollar curve.

Aabar Investments, the investment arm of Abu Dhabi’s International Petroleum Investment Corp, is this evening bookbuilding a bond of €1.5bn to €2bn, exchangeable into shares of UniCredit.