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Buzzi Unicem, the BB+ rated Italian cement and concrete group, on Wednesday issued €500m of seven year notes with minimal support from high yield funds.

Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK), Poland's state development bank, has mandated three banks for its debut euro bond — a deal that has been expected since 2014.

State-owned Indian Railway Finance Corp (IRFC) has selected six banks to work on an offshore rupee-denominated bond, also known as Masala bond.

Bond investors woke up to a pair of investment grade Asian issuers on Wednesday with the government of Malaysia seeking bids for a dual-tranche wakala sukuk and BoC Aviation looking to close a conventional 10 year.

LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the French luxury goods group, returned to the convertible bond market on Monday night to tap its $600m equity-neutral bond, issued in February, for another $150m.

Several covered bond issuers have removed the swaps in their covered bond programmes, in the face of onerous regulatory obligations. This has improved their funding efficiency and given investors a less risky, more transparent, and potentially higher yielding product. Others should follow.

The Province of Ontario is to hit the dollar market on Wednesday with a 10 year benchmark while the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Oesterreichische Kontrollbank printed deals on Tuesday, as bankers noted the popularity of dual tranche deals in the currency.

Banca Popolare di Vicenza’s mainly retail shareholders will be left owning just 0.66% of the bank if its €1.5bn IPO is priced at the bottom end of the price range. That the IPO and capital increase would be highly dilutive had been clear for some time, but the publication of the price range today makes it possible to put numbers on this for the first time.

The Asian Development Bank and Oesterreichische Kontrollbank hit screens with dollar deals on Monday, with ADB adding more supply to a burst of dual tranche trades that included deals last week by the World Bank and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.

Pacific Basin Shipping has proposed a rights issue to raise HK$1.2bn ($150.6m) as it sees the dry bulk shipping market bouncing back from one of its most difficult periods in over 30 years.

Despite a growing pipeline, Panda bond issuance has been stymied by foreign exchange volatility and regulatory issues around auditing and remittance of proceeds. Market participants are working closely with China on the problems and expect regulators to address the accounting requirements in the coming months.

Steinhoff International, the South African furniture maker and goods retailer that has been on an acquisition spree, raised €1.1bn on Thursday with a convertible bond that bucked the recent trend of deals that have struggled, partly because it was the kind of simple, traditional structure investors like.