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Nets, the largest digital payments processor in the Nordic region, has announced the price range for its Copenhagen IPO, which values the business at up to $4.8bn, almost double the price its private equity owners Advent and Bain paid for the company in 2014.

Danish payment systems firm Nets has agreed €1.4bn of loans with a new bank group to refinance debt ahead of its initial public offering. The loans are denominated solely in euros which is an increasingly popular currency for lenders, said a banker on the deal.

India’s L&T Technology Services and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Co have made headlines this week with their respective IPOs, with the former aiming for Rp8.9bn ($132.9m) and the latter Rp60.6bn.

The World Bank mandated four banks on Monday to sell a five year dollar benchmark. The bond will be the borrower's first benchmark at the maturity since May.

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board will sell its first ever bond on Tuesday, and HSH Finanzfonds mandated what will be its longest dated bond ever.

German healthcare group Fresenius has mandated three banks to provide a bridge loan for its €5.76bn acquisition of Spain’s largest private hospital group, Quirónsalud, and may add a fourth, according to a banker close to the deal.

DBS Bank in Singapore has mandated leads for a roadshow to market its first euro-denominated covered bond, and the second from a Singaporean lender in euros.

RWE, the German utilities group, will float its renewables and power distribution business Innogy on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in the fourth quarter, the company said in an intention to float document on Monday morning.

Asia’s oldest bourse, the Bombay Stock Exchange, has taken a step closer to its highly anticipated IPO, while IRB Infrastructure Developers is preparing to launch India’s first infrastructure investment trust.

A pair of issuers printed at the two maturity extremes of what is possible in euro benchmarks this week, as the European Central Bank's governing council on Thursday held back from any dramatic announcements that would have opened up a wider range of issuance possibilities.

The sterling market for public sector borrowers woke from its summer slumber with a bang this week, as a series of issuers approached the currency in a variety of ways and for different reasons.

Belfius Bank this week sold the first Belgian covered bond to price within a French covered bond. The deal also came with virtually no new issue concession.