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Argentina’s largest private energy company Pampa Energía wrapped up investor meetings with a lunch in New York on Wednesday but is yet to issue initial price thoughts on a planned fixed rate peso-linked international bond.

Agence Française de Développement has passed its first capital markets test since asking for permission to change its banking licence, raising €1bn with a 15 year deal on Wednesday. The choice of tenor may have helped alleviate any immediate problems over its status switch, said a person close to the deal.

The Inter-American Development Bank sent SSA bankers into rapturous applause on Wednesday as it reopened the 10 year part of the dollar curve for richer names with what Dealogic data shows is its largest ever global benchmark in the tenor.

Russia’s EuroChem once again appeared to prove on Monday that it can squeeze bond investors for every last basis point and get away with it, but one of the bookrunners ended up owning up to half of the deal.

Though some bankers have detected a cooling of investors’ thirst for European IPOs in recent weeks, the right names are still flying off the shelves. Delivery Hero, the online food ordering service, is guiding investors in its €866m deal to the top of the price range, and shares in restaurant chain Vapiano rose on their debut.

India’s Au Small Finance Bank has begun a three day bookbuild for its Rp19.1bn ($295.6m) IPO, with leads not worried by it being placed on the central bank’s caution list for foreign shareholding.

Asian issuers flooded into the debt market on Tuesday, as seven credits battled for attention amid a somewhat positive tone in the market. Greenland Hong Kong Holdings grabbed $200m, while China Gold International Resources Corp nailed a $500m three year and Shimao Property Holdings sealed a tap.

The European leveraged finance market was disappointed this week when Bain Capital’s and Cinven’s €5.3bn bid for German generic drug firm Stada fell apart.

Euro conditions are excellent for public sector borrowers, with Spain pulling in a nearly €30bn book for an €8bn 10 year — which bankers away from the trade said indicated a high presence of quality investors — and KfW raising €5bn after picking a seven year deal over a shorter tenor. Another pair of issuers are now looking to take advantage.

The Inter-American Development Bank is set to tackle the 10 year part of the dollar curve, a maturity that most of its peers have avoided so far this year.

EuroChem had taken books of $1.2bn by lunchtime on Tuesday after opening books on a four year trade a week after finishing its roadshow. Falling oil prices and a Russia sovereign trade last week meant the issuer decided to wait for a firmer market before launching its deal.

NetLink Trust has kicked off bookbuilding for its up to S$2.7bn ($1.9bn) IPO, set to be Singapore’s largest listing in half a decade, according to a source close to the trade.