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India’s HDFC Bank has raised $2.22bn through a qualified institutional placement and a concurrent sale of American Depository Shares (ADS).

State-owned China National Building Material has kicked off its debut syndication through three bookrunners, seeking $160m from the fundraising.

French laboratory testing company Eurofins Scientific and Italian tyre company Pirelli have closed Schuldscheine totalling more than €1bn in the past week.

Société du Grand Paris, a French agency that plans to sell its debut bond issue later this year, has launched the first ever Green Euro Medium Term Note programme — a move that bankers and experts said could bring a range of benefits to the issuer and the wider SRI market.

Prologis, the US warehouses Reit, found a very warm reception to its first euro benchmark issue since 2015 this week, leading bankers to surmise that other reverse Yankee issuers might follow it to the euro market.

Reliance Industries has made a quick return to the offshore loan market with a $2.7bn refinancing deal, having picked 17 banks to act as mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners.

Telecommunications infrastructure giant China Tower found huge demand for its multi-billion-dollar IPO this week as it kicked off bookbuilding in Hong Kong. The deal is a counter-balance to a flood of technology listings in the market this year. Jonathan Breen reports.

South Korea’s steel company Posco returned to the dollar bond market on Wednesday, breaking a seven year hiatus. It easily locked up a $500m trade after investors lapped up the rare notes.

Rewables fund Tages Helios has taken out five credit lines totalling €452.5m from a syndicate of banks to refinance a portfolio of solar plants, as Italian names continue to win capital markets support despite some investors' distaste for the political direction of the country.

Prologis, the US real estate investment trust that owns logistics properties, held a call with investors this morning to explore the sale of a sale of a 10 to 12 year euro senior unsecured benchmark bond.

A banker has moved from NatWest Markets to work on insurance DCM at BNP Paribas.

Mainland telecommunications infrastructure giant China Tower hit the road on Monday to start drumming up interest in its HK$68.1bn ($8.7bn) IPO, according to a senior banker on the deal.