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UniCredit, the largest bank in Italy, has formally finished its €13bn rights issue after selling the unexercised rights on the market for €15m.

Moody’s has downgraded its outlook for B3/B rated Croatian food retailer and manufacturer Agrokor to negative from stable as the company’s credit quality comes under siege.

ParexGroup, the French construction chemicals maker, has scheduled a bank meeting for Monday for an €865m seven year term loan to refinance €700m of floating rate notes, as Irish telecoms firm Eir released price guidance on Friday for its €1.6bn loan refinancing.

Credit Suisse has given two senior bankers responsibility over its private banking operations in India, the firm said on Friday.

A healthy pick-up to Central American peers, and investor optimism that political bickering would not put the country at risk of default, allowed El Salvador to raise $601m of vital 12 year funding on Tuesday, despite the sovereign rapidly nearing triple-C status.

A big step in restoring Italy's banking sector to health was taken successfully this week, when the fifth biggest EMEA equity sale ever raised €13bn for UniCredit.

China Reading, the e-book publisher backed by Tencent Holdings, has picked Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley to lead its Hong Kong IPO, according to a source close to the matter.

Bahrain has raised $600m with a re-opening of its 2028s, pulling in a $2.6bn book that bodes well for the slew of Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) sovereigns set to charge into the international bond markets this year.

Korea Development Bank (KDB) has become the latest name from South Korea to join the debt issuance party, sealing a triple tranche offering with two floating rate tranches, and finding $4bn of demand for its deal.

Minsheng Financial Leasing has returned to the debt market for a $200m offshore loan that is led by three mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners.

United Overseas Bank priced a Basel III tier two bond in its home currency on Monday, becoming the first FIG to sell a Singapore dollar denominated deal in 2017. And it did it with style, achieving both the largest size and the lowest spread.

Asia DCM has seen a steady supply of South Korean issuers so far in 2017, with Korea Development Bank becoming the latest to venture out with dollar-denominated bonds.