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American data centre owner Digital Realty extended its sterling corporate bond curve on Wednesday. The issuer’s fourth deal in sterling showed no sign of investor fatigue.

Sibur, the Russian petrochemical company, announced a bond buy-back on Tuesday, targeting the borrower’s October 2023 bond.

Hyundai Oilbank, a subsidiary of South Korean shipbuilding firm Hyundai Heavy Industries, is expected to delay its IPO until 2019, according to a banker working on the deal.

China’s Niu Technologies has launched bookbuilding for its $103.8m Nasdaq IPO, but despite plenty of pre-deal interest, sources don't expect the trade to be a blowout.

KfW and the Province of Ontario will hit separate parts of the dollar curve on Wednesday, with the former circulating what one on-looking banker described as “punchy” price thoughts. The deals followed a well-received floating rate note from a German Land that doubled in size.

Wednesday will be debut day in the green bond market, with Ireland preparing a 12 year inaugural euro benchmark and Société du Grand Paris (SGP) out with a 10 year that will also be its first bond issue of any kind. Both must contend with a market backdrop rife with Italian politics-driven turbulence, although SGP’s deal has so far had what one lead called “one of the strongest starts I’ve seen for a French issuer”.

One of Europe’s major electricity producers, Portugal’s EDP sold its first green bond on Tuesday, aligning its fundraising with the company’s green principles.

ASK Investment Managers and microfinance lender Muthoot Microfin have won listing approval from India’s market regulator.

Gulf International Bank has cancelled a five year dollar bond that it began roadshowing at the end of September.

Weidai, a Chinese peer-to-peer lender, started drumming up interest for a possible $100m IPO on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.

Saudi Arabia’s newfound zeal for international loans is testing some lenders’ credit limits for the country, as banks prepare to digest an up to $50bn financing for Saudi Aramco. Michael Turner reports.

A sharp sell-off in US Treasuries after the release of stronger than expected US economic data has changed the landscape for dollar issuance. Ten year benchmarks could be possible, although one product investors would normally welcome in a rising rate environment — floating rate notes — is unlikely to make a big comeback.