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Agence Française de Développement stormed back into the dollar market on Thursday, printing its largest trade in the currency in six years with a comfortable oversubscription and tightened pricing. The deal put to rest AFD’s pulled dollar trade in February, said bankers.

Telefónica printed the largest single tranche of the day on Tuesday, with a €1.25bn deal with a January 2028 maturity. Despite competing with three other corporate bond deals in the euro market, the deal built a €3bn order book and was printed with a single digit new issue premium.

Natixis has hired Bryan North-Claus as head of fixed income sales Americas, as part of the French bank's push to improve its American business.

Liberbank, the Spanish retail banking group, has announced a €500m rights issue to improve its coverage of nonperforming assets (NPA) and to boost its capital ratio.

LCH SwapAgent has processed its first trades, with Citi and Deutsche Bank becoming the system's first counterparties as they executed a Swiss franc denominated interest rate swap and a euro denominated inflation swap.

Asian equity capital markets jolted back into life this week, with a handful of overnight blocks signalling the end of the summer lull during the constant furore on the Korean peninsula. Despite the uncertainty, bankers predict equity markets will absorb the noise and battle through. Jonathan Breen reports.

JD.com has hired five banks to arrange its $500m debut in the international loan market, making it the latest borrower from China’s red-hot technology sector on the prowl for funds.

Pricing has emerged for a $250m borrowing for Gajah Tunggal, an Indonesian tyre maker, according to bankers.

China Aoyuan Property Group took advantage of an improvement in its credit metrics and a recent ratings upgrade to return to the debt market for the second time this year, netting its targeted $250m in the process.

Chinese logistics firm Best hit the road on Thursday to start drumming up demand for its $931.5m IPO of American depositary shares (ADS).

Just three months after its first ever nominal global peso bond, Uruguay plans to return to debt markets on Thursday for a new peso-denominated note due March 2028.

Oleg Melentyev has joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch as head of leveraged finance strategy in New York, after four years in the same position at Deutsche Bank.