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  • Vodafone raised €1.5bn in the Euro-commercial paper market today, selling a series of clips that almost doubled its total issuance volume for the year. The debt’s short-dated tenors flew in the face of the market’s recent lurch towards longer term paper.
  • Čez, the Czech electricity conglomerate, sold its debut privately placed medium term note of 2012 on Wednesday. Further deals from central and eastern European corporations could be on the way, dealers suggested.
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    The European Central Bank’s surprise decision to cut its deposit rate by 25bp to zero — labelled "shock and awe" by dealers — could shrink the euro commercial paper market by 20%, writes Craig McGlashan.
  • Italian capital markets specialists have welcomed a change in the law that will make it easier for unlisted Italian companies to issue bonds. But they warned that details still need to be ironed out before the law decree, officially published this week, can become useful.
  • United Parcel Service, the US logistics group, has become the first company to issue Euro-commercial paper in renminbi. The Rmb630m ($99.5m) of paper was placed in London, as UPS looked to the City’s nascent offshore renminbi market to help diversify its sources of funding for potential business in China.
  • United Parcel Service, the US logistics group, has become the first company to issue Euro-commercial paper in renminbi. The Rmb1.26bn ($199m) of paper was placed in London, as UPS looked to the City’s nascent offshore renminbi market to help diversify its sources of funding for potential business in China.