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  • Westpac placed just under HK$13.4bn into the Hong Kong market across two MTNs last week — the pair of bonds are its largest ever in the currency, according to Dealogic. The notes came in a busy week for niche issuance, and bankers have posited that this move into the peripheral markets comes as a response to the global fall in yields.
  • London football club Tottenham Hotspur FC has sold £525m of US private placements, according to sources familiar with the situation, to pay off bank loans which funded the construction of its new stadium.
  • Barclays' head of private capital markets for Europe, the Middle East and Africa has decided to leave the bank.
  • Issuance is starting to resume after the summer break; however, this week a booming public market drew away investor and issuer attention from MTNs. Despite this, a range of established SSA, FIG and corporate borrowers have slipped in, with deals across core, niche and EM currencies.
  • Nordic broker Pareto Securities is looking to capitalise on the growth of the Schuldschein market and the instrument’s increasing popularity in its native region by advising and arranging transactions itself. But some traditional market players fear the Oslo-based firm’s association with high yield borrowers is a cause for concern. Silas Brown investigates.
  • Some traditional arrangers of Schuldscheine, which see themselves as the guardians of the market’s probity, were horrified by the news that Pareto Securities is looking to set up shop on their front lawn. But the sort of companies Pareto is likely to bring will answer the prayers of some investors that the old guard have not. And with it, buyers will have to take greater responsibility for what they stick on their books.