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OTE, the Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation, returned to the bond market on Tuesday with a €350m four year at a yield of just 4.625%, despite high yield bankers saying the mood in the market was still unstable.

Gategroup, the airline catering services company, has completed the syndication of its €250m term loan.

Support from US fund managers helped Macedonia price a new sub-benchmark euro-denominated deal comfortably inside initial price thoughts on Tuesday despite rising geopolitical risk.

Bank of East Asia (BEA) opened books for a dollar-denominated additional tier one (AT1) on November 25, with the Hong Kong lender looking to use the proceeds to fund the purchase of its outstanding legacy tier one instruments.

UNV Digital Technologies has decided not to go ahead with its $150m IPO in Hong Kong after completing investor education, as the issuer felt that market conditions were not in its favour.

SKF, the Swedish ball bearing maker, won a €2.2bn order book today (Tuesday) for a €500m no-grow bond, issued to partly fund a tender offer for older notes.

OTE, the Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation, held an investor call on Tuesday November 24 for what could be the first Greek corporate bond issue in euros this year.

Macedonia has emerged with a new five year euro-denominated bond offering a new issue premium of over 50bp at the initial guidance stage, according to two syndicate officials away from the note.

Asia's green financing market received a boost this week with IDBI Bank bringing India’s second dollar-denominated bond. Market participants expect the deal to be followed by more such trades from the country.

India’s Reliance Industries signed its $1.47bn dual-currency loan at the end of last week in Dubai, with the deal sealed following commitments from a group of around 30 lenders.

Danone returned to the corporate bond market on Monday for the second time this year, with a €750m 8.5 year bond.

A question mark hung over BMW’s quarterly round of private placements this week. Like some of its rivals' emissions test results, deals over the last few days showed rather higher numbers than earlier in the year.