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British Sky Broadcasting, the UK pay TV company, priced €850m and £750m of listed bonds on Monday over three maturities to fund its acquisition of Sky Deutschland. The deal was no blowout — one tranche was priced at the level of initial price thoughts, the others only 5bp tighter — but with an additional €400m from a private placement on the same day, Sky says it has now completed the financing for its acquisitions.

World Bank opened subscriptions for its first green bond targeted at retail investors in Europe on Monday.

Publicis Groupe's $3.5bn loan for its acquisition of Sapient, the marketing and consulting company, is near closing, according to a banker working on the deal. A syndicate of relationship banks has been invited.

Books for the IPO of Maple Leaf Educational Systems, China’s largest operator of international schools, are already covered one day into bookbuilding, said bankers.

[First published 06.15, November 17, 2014. Updated with the final price.] Shui On Development came back to the dollar bond market on Monday in what has been a busy year for the borrower. The Chinese developer has made multiple outings in 2014 as part of a liability management exercise.

Aryzta, the Irish-Swiss frozen bread and baked goods supplier, issued its first hybrid bond in euros on Friday October 14. The company is unrated and has no other bonds in euros, giving investors plenty to think about.

JAB Holding, the investment company of the Reimann family, has issued a debut €750m seven year bond. Real money investors took 96% of the allocations and the bond was priced inside the secondary level of Wendel, the French investment company, though it softened slightly in the secondary market.

Goodman European Logistics Fund (Gelf) priced a €400m seven year bond in a crowded market on Friday, but managed to stand out enough to get a €1bn book.

A flood of financial institution bond issuance this week concluded on Friday with a brace of tier two deals, from Standard Chartered and Italy’s Generali.

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The November deluge of dollar supply continued as companies from across the high-grade spectrum printed a total of $25bn in three days of issuance this week, led by nervous energy and resources companies.

Australia and New Zealand Bank on Wednesday issued the tightest ever deal issued by an Australian bank in euros. The five year bond nevertheless offered a decent pick-up to where covered bonds issued by eurozone banks have been priced, and to the issuer’s curve.