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Gates Global, the power transmission belts maker, held a lender call on Friday afternoon London time for a $300m-equivalent euro term loan ‘B’ add-on, having tapped its 2022 bonds on Thursday.

UBS jumped into the dollar market this week with its first deal of the year as spreads tightened following the Federal Reserve’s move to increase interest rates.

The sterling market was red hot this week with public sector issuers hitting screens in force, despite a headline heavy calendar.

Citi has reshuffled its southeast Asian corporate and investment banking (CIB) leadership, with David Biller and Jonathan Quek set to take on more responsibility.

South Korean mobile game developer Netmarble Games plans to submit its IPO prospectus on Friday and start pre-deal investor education on March 20, according to a banker working on the deal.

The equity market for Chinese education companies in Hong Kong is heating up, with Minsheng Education Group Co, the first pure play university IPO from the mainland, finishing bookbuilding this week to much success. All the signs show that investors are excited about the sector, writes Jonathan Breen.

The IPO of Innogy was voted Equity Capital Markets Deal of the Year and JP Morgan judged ECM Bank of the Year in GlobalCapital's 2016 Awards - read the full results here.

Public sector borrowers will take a pause from primary this week as they dodge possible volatility during a week riddled with political and economic risk events in three major currencies.

Former regional head of BNP Paribas’ global markets in the Iberia region, Joe Lovrics, has joined Citi as head of its Spain and Portugal markets franchises.

A pair of supranational issuers nipped in on Tuesday with what are likely to be the final dollar deals of the week before a Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Wednesday — where futures prices suggest an overwhelming likelihood that the Federal Reserve’s target rate will rise.

Kuwait nipped in on Monday ahead of the Fed decision this week to raise $8bn with its debut bond, establishing a liquid benchmark at the five and 10 year parts of the curve. While the emphatic statement the deal made was not in question, there was debate about the bonds’ relative value against other Gulf sovereigns.

BMC Software, the US IT management firm, joined a packed European leveraged finance market on Monday with a €650m term loan refinancing, one of several deals launched since late last week.