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The Asian Development Bank took advantage of strong investor appetite in the dollar bond market on Wednesday to make a deal that matched the spread Oesterreichische Kontrollbank paid on a five year dollar issue on Tuesday.

The Republic of Armenia sold a $750m 10 year bond on Tuesday, which market participants said was “expensive” for investors, with a negative new issue premium of 10bp.

Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (BIL) ventured into the Swedish and Norwegian markets for the first time this week. With many of Europe's big banks absent from the MTN market this year, dealers are instead chasing more unusual deals from rarer names.

IDB Invest, the private sector arm of the Inter-American Development Bank, is preparing to issue the first bond under its new sustainability debt framework.

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone managed to seal its $500m 10 year deal inside fair value on Tuesday, despite investor concerns about the company's environmental and social record.

GMR Hyderabad International Airport swooped into the bond market on Tuesday for $300m, adding money to its coffers ahead of an expectation of a revival in passenger growth.

Oesterreichische Kontrollbank (OeKB) hit the market on Tuesday for a five year dollar benchmark, raising $1.5bn despite pricing coming through the issuer’s secondary curve.

Christian Keller has become Citigroup's new head of markets and securities services for Germany and Austria.

Flex, the US-Singapore electronic component maker, has signed a $2bn revolving credit facility, in what leads are describing as the first ESG-linked syndicated revolving credit facility for the US technology sector.

Solid demand from investors for Woori Bank's sustainable bond on Monday allowed the South Korean borrower to price its $550m deal at an ultra-tight spread.

Chinese healthcare duo MicroPort CardioFlow Medtech Corp and Suzhou Basecare Medical Corp have kicked off their Hong Kong IPOs after a week of pre-marketing.

Arab Petroleum Investment Corp — the multilateral development bank — held investor calls on Monday for a bond offering, nine months after its previous dollar outing. Although emerging market SSA issuance has been dominated by low rated, high yielding credits since the start of the year, investment grade issuers will begin to trickle in, bankers say.