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Emerging market consumer lender Home Credit will list on Hong Kong’s stock exchange in early October, despite political unrest-driven volatility that has scared off other issuers, according to a source close to the deal. Jonathan Breen reports.

Assa Abloy, the Swedish door maker, locked in €100m of long dated euro paper on Monday. The 15 year note, according to bankers, does not fit the Swedish issuer’s usual maturity profile, and is its first in the maturity since 2015.

Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) enjoyed a rare outing in the dollar bond market on Tuesday, nabbing $750m. Morgan Davis reports.

The Nordic corporate bond market may be starting to stir from its deep summer sleep, as Samhällsbyggnadsbolaget i Norden (SBB) revealed on Tuesday plans for a new issue. The Swedish housing and social infrastructure company, rated BBB-/BBB- (both stable), has announced a roadshow starting on August 23 for a seven year euro note.

KommuneKredit failed to set the market alight with the first euro syndicated public sector bond since mid-July, excluding deals from German Laender. The Danish agency only managed to sell €500m for the 11 year benchmark and was unable to tighten the spread during pricing.

Danish agency KommuneKredit mandated banks on Monday for its first euro-denominated bond of the year and the first euro syndicated public sector bond since mid-July, excluding German regions.

The Asian Development Bank returned to the Kiwi dollar market to print its largest Kauri deal since January 2018 this week. With the Inter-American Development Bank and International Finance Corporation set to follow with a pair of taps in the coming days, bankers are expecting a busy few weeks in the market as investors react to the recent surprise interest rate cut from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

The US corporate bond market continued to crank out investment grade deals despite fears of a global recession battering risk assets this week.

Zhenro Properties Group returned to the dollar bond market for the seventh time this year on Tuesday, tapping one of its March transactions for an additional $110m. But the market presented a whole different set of problems for the borrower this time round.

BUUK Infrastructure, a UK utilities firm formerly called Brookfield Utilities, has sold US private placements, according to market participants.

Vietnam’s Mong Duong Finance has launched a $484.71m borrowing into general syndication, in tandem with a bond it issued at beginning of the month.

Lloyds Bank dipped into dollars for senior funding on Wednesday, a day after UBS launched a deal in the same currency. A syndicate official noted that European financial institutions are being tempted across the Atlantic amid more inhospitable conditions in the euro market this summer.