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Deezer, the French music streaming service, opened the book for its IPO on Thursday morning, as the autumn’s busy season of flotations continues to produce successes, failures and deals that get done at weakened terms.

After weeks of volatility and fractious executions in Europe's corporate bond markets, BHP Billiton has pulled off the biggest ever corporate hybrid bond sale, proving investors are open to buying even quite challenging deals, if they come with lashings of yield, writes Ross Lancaster.

Senior SSA bankers are fretting that situations such as this week's clash between two Dutch agencies, which drove one of the pair to pull its deal, could become unavoidable, writes Craig McGlashan.

Lithuania landed its longest, largest and lowest yielding deal ever in one fell swoop this week. But with the eurozone sovereign’s order book dominated by rates buyers rather than emerging market accounts, the deal has implications for Spain just as much as Slovenia.

Kuka, the robotics and automation company headquartered in Augsburg, Germany, has issued a €250m Schuldschein note.

A Dutch brewing company has made a rare appearance in the private medium term note market with a 10 year note, joined by a trio of its continental peers that went even further down the maturity curve.

Global markets are looking more settled and, in spite of little supply this week, bankers suggest that a FIG market reopening trade is imminent.

Covered bonds issued this week by Nordea Finland and DNB Boligkreditt went surprisingly well as, despite being the largest ones on offer, they were the most highly oversubscribed and subsequently posted the best performance.

SNCF Réseau went to the short end of the curve in a hunt for central banks on Thursday, selling a rare €500m three year note.

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Investec is looking for two syndicated loans totalling $530m, one for its South African business and the other for its London arm, according to bankers on the deal.

Peru will meet investors in Europe next week ahead of a potential return to the euro bond market for the first time in more than a decade.