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Finland showed what is possible at a deeply negative swap spread and sub 1% yield in the long dated part of the euro curve on Tuesday.

Syngenta, the company created in 2000 through the merger of the spun-off agribusinesses of Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis and the UK's AstraZeneca, has priced a €500m 12.5 year bond.

Irish budget airline Ryanair has flaunted its investment grade credentials, pricing its second bond, a €850m eight year, with a minimal new issue premium.

Iceland’s Arion Bank is set to become the nation’s second bank to hit the euro denominated senior unsecured market since the country’s financial crisis.

Vimpelcom has announced a buyback of up to $2.1bn of eight of its Eurobonds

Malaysia has shortlisted banks for its return the international sukuk market after four years away, and bankers expect it to announce the final mandate soon, according GlobalCapital Asia's sister publication, the Islamic Finance Information Service.

Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Company printed its first dollar bond of the year on Monday, managing to price it flat to the existing dollar curve due to strong demand.

Ineos, the chemicals company now registered in Switzerland, has hired five banks to arrange its €750m refinancing project to replace bonds with term loans.

German cable company Unitymedia has continued its refinancing run in robust fashion, pricing €700m of 12 year non-call six senior unsecured bonds at 3.75% on Monday.

Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Company has opened books to its first international bond of 2015, having taken comfort in the fact that fixed income investors in five Asian cities view the Japanese credit with a safe haven status.

Café Coffee Day, often considered the Starbucks of India, is busy brewing plans for a listing on the country’s domestic stock market, via an IPO that could raise the coffee chain anywhere between $150m and $200m.

Asiamoney is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Australia Awards. After suggestions by bankers from global and domestic institutions, we weighed the most impressive deals and banks in the market last year. The decisions were not always easy, but we hope to have picked a series of winners that truly highlight the breadth of potential in Australia's capital market. It was a good year for the overall market; it was a great year for the winners below.