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A Japanese agency has pipped a Nordic one to the post in a tightly-fought race for the top dollar scores on BondMarker in the third quarter. Just 0.2 marks separate the top three scored dollar prints.

Goldman Sachs is looking to shake up the established order in corporate broking after making its second senior hire in three months.

After several years financing in the domestic and Asian markets, Hungary turned its attention to the next stage of reducing its external liabilities this week, and was overwhelmed by the positive response to its dollar euro switch, György Barcza, chief executive of Hungary’s debt management agency (AKK), told GlobalCapital.

After a year-long barrage of regulatory intervention, Chinese corporates are re-emerging on the international deal making scene, and this time they are here to stay, writes David Rothnie.

State-owned reinsurer General Insurance Corp of India has finalised the price range for its IPO, which will have a potential size of Rp113.7bn ($1.7bn).

Brazil followed Mexico’s example in making the most of idyllic issuance conditions on Tuesday, though some investors argued that Brazil’s $3bn deal demonstrated that the market retained some sense of discipline.

Acme Solar Holdings is nearing the final stages of launching a Rp22bn ($336.7m) listing, having filed a red herring prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Board of India on Thursday.

Dollar borrowers failed to take advantage of pent-up demand and tightening spreads as US corporate bond supply recorded a lacklustre end to the month.

Heineken used the quieter end of the week in terms of issuance to price its second benchmark corporate bond issue of the year. The sixth benchmark issue of the year in Europe from a beer producer was the only deal in the market on Friday.

A wave of German and Austrian property companies is coming to the equity-linked bond market for cheap funding, writes Aidan Gregory. The attractive terms they are obtaining are partly of their own making: a reward for the companies' strong performances.

Total, the French oil company, has been a frequent issuer of euro bonds, raising €7bn in 2016 and more than €5bn in each of the two previous years. However, it waited until the last week of September to sell its first new issue in euros in 2017.

CPI Property, a big owner of real estate in central and eastern Europe, took to euros for its first international bond on Wednesday, and in doing so priced the biggest ever real estate bond from the region.