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  • Medium term note bankers have had some recent successes in their perennial struggle to convince companies of the benefits of the private placement market. Some borrowers are heeding the dealers’ advice, as investors are so desperate for anything rare they are willing to pay up.
  • Safran, the French aerospace and defence group, took advantage of investors eager to diversify their holdings to return to the bond markets and sell its first ever privately placed MTN on Monday.
  • Germany’s three carmakers unleashed a volley of private and niche currency MTNs on Wednesday and Thursday, leading to jostling. Volkswagen was planning to print a note in Norwegian kroner on Thursday, but Daimler beat it to the punch, causing VW to issue in Swedish kronor instead.
  • Germany's three carmakers unleashed a volley of private and niche currency MTNs on Wednesday and Thursday, leading to some jostling. Volkswagen was planning to print a note in Norwegian kroner on Thursday, but Daimler beat it to the punch, causing Volkswagen to sell a deal in Swedish kronor instead.
  • Kering, the French luxury goods group that used to be called PPR, printed its first bond of the year — a 10 year semi-private placement — on Monday.
  • Czech investors are craving corporate privately placed bonds. Volkswagen Financial Services took advantage of the interest to reopen the market, selling the first MTN private placement from a corporate issuer in Czech koruna since 2012.