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State Grid Corporation of China returned to the market with a multibillion triple-tranche transaction on Monday morning. But despite nearly $10bn having already been absorbed by issues from other major Chinese state owned enterprises this month, bankers said there is still room for State Grid to do a jumbo deal.

Turkish bank Finansbank, 77.23% owned by the National Bank of Greece, launched its $500m RegS /144A five year bond at 6.375% on Friday morning in London, with pricing expected at the US open.

Banglalink, the Bangladeshi telecoms company, looks set to finally price the debut international bond from the country more than one week after it came out with initial guidance on April 16.

Allocations are out for Indonesian company Adira Dinamika Multi Finance’s loan of $300m, which has increased by $100m after strong demand in syndication.

Times Property Holdings reopened its debut dollar bond on Thursday after receiving strong anchor orders. Despite recent negative headlines surrounding the Chinese property sector, investors took a keen interest in the offering, allowing the issuer to quickly close the deal and even increase the deal.

SingTel signed loans worth a chunky S$3.5bn ($2.8bn) via two separate facilities this week, in deals that saw a large number of banks piling in.

China Overseas Land and Investment will be on the road this week and next with a proposed dollar issue. It will be the second transaction for the issuer this year, following a $400m bond in January.

A global-local currency bond proved to be one ambitious step too far for a hot LatAm market on Thursday as the Dominican Republic failed to garner enough interest to sell a Dominican peso-denominated bond. But bankers away from the deal praised the sovereign’s first 30 year issue as strong liquidity continues to support high yield issuers.

National Bank of Greece bucked the typical route taken by peripheral banks with renewed access to the capital markets, starting with a covered bond or short maturity senior unsecured, to mark its return with a five year senior bond that it printed though the level that the Greek sovereign was trading. It's a deal that has market participants both trumpeting the peripheral recovery story and wondering: to what extent yield hunger is distorting decisions?

Arion Banki's planned euro bond sale — the first such deal from an Icelandic institution since the credit crisis — has got market participants speculating where the deal will price, with some arguing that demanding UK investors will push the spread to 350bp over mid-swaps.

In contrast to their evaporating taste for Russian risk, banks’ buoyant appetite for central and eastern European names was underlined this week as Energeticky a Prumyslovy Holding (EPH) launched its largest syndicated loan, writes Michael Turner.

Auckland Council is eyeing the European private placement market as it plans to increase its offshore issuance in its next fiscal year, a funding official told GlobalCapital.