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Days after it sold a private placement, Mamoura Diversified Global Holding returned to the bond market on Thursday for a dollar dual trancher. The syndication will include a Formosa tranche.

French banks and foreign rivals are slugging it out in France’s corporate finance boom, where proximity to the government is an advantage, writes David Rothnie.

Nordic Capital, the Swedish private equity firm, has signed a sustainability-linked revolving credit facility, as ESG finance continues to make inroads into private equity.

AstraZeneca, the UK drug maker, hit the euro market on Wednesday after printing $7bn across the Atlantic a day earlier. The borrower is building up funds to pay for its $39bn acquisition of US rival Alexion Pharmaceuticals.

ABN Amro brushed aside concerns about the bid for long end paper on Wednesday, as it secured a tight spread on a 12 year deal in the euro market. It was joined by a couple of other banks targeting more conventional maturities.

The Emirate of Abu Dhabi raised $2bn on Tuesday, in a deal that bankers said achieved one of the largest negative new issue premiums on any sovereign dollar investment grade bond so far this year.

A handful of Chinese investment grade names bombarded the dollar debt market on Tuesday, taking more than $2bn.

Europe’s high grade corporate bond market had a distinctly Spanish flavour on Tuesday as Cellnex and Merlin Properties issued. Some analysts predict that the healthy earnings season might mean a 15% rise in bond issuance from the European market.

UBS Group made a swift return to the dollar bond market on Tuesday, as it went in search of an additional tier one transaction a day after raising $3bn of senior unsecured debt.

The Emirate of Abu Dhabi, one of the highest rated sovereign issuers in the Middle East, was in the market on Tuesday for a seven year dollar bond less than a year after it broke records by issuing the Gulf's longest ever bond.

The Indian government has raised Rp40bn ($547.4m) from a sell-down of its stake in Axis Bank.

A trio of firms slipped into the market to place senior paper this week, and with spreads threatening to creep wider, bankers were keen to see lenders make use of the windows available.