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Investors rushed toward the Rp113.7bn ($1.7bn) IPO of General Insurance Corp on Wednesday, bringing enough orders to cover over 70% of the book by midday, a show of early demand rarely seen in bookbuilding for an Indian listing.

Malaysia’s Genting Group grabbed an additional $500m on Tuesday from the tap of its debut bond sale earlier this year.

Both the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and Dexia Crédit Local were able to take advantage of a strong market and cut 3bp from the spreads paid on their euro benchmarks on Tuesday.

UPC Holding, the telecoms company owned by Liberty Global, and UK car glass specialist Belron announced multi-currency term loan offerings on Tuesday.

Malaysian conglomerate Genting Group is looking to add to its inaugural bond sale from earlier this year.

The lead banks on Keppel-KBS US Reit plan to kick off pre-deal investor education for the $500m Singapore IPO towards the second half of this week.

Asian investors have piled into Qudian’s IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, with the $825m fundraising heavily oversubscribed even before it begins roadshows in the US, said bankers.

Liberbank’s shareholders approved on Monday all the resolutions at its general meeting, including a €500m rights issue, which Deutsche Bank and Citigroup had already pre-underwritten.

The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) will launch its fourth quarter issuance programme with a new six year benchmark, sharing investors’ screens with a 10 year deal from Dexia.

Banks that committed to a $250m loan for Saka Energi Indonesia, the upstream oil and gas arm of Indonesian state-owned Perusahaan Gas Negara, can expect to be scaled back after $285m of pledges came in by the end of general syndication.

A Japanese agency has pipped a Nordic one to the post in a tightly-fought race for the top dollar scores on BondMarker in the third quarter. Just 0.2 marks separate the top three scored dollar prints.

Haitong UniTrust is preparing for a late October or early November launch of its potential $500m Hong Kong listing, according to a banker working on the transaction.