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Beverage company Femsa became the third Mexican company in a week to sell euro denominated bonds on Monday, jumping on an ECB-driven rally in credit markets to sell €1bn of seven year paper.

Malaysian telecommunications giant Axiata Group and Bank of Communications Financial Leasing are looking to tie up their respective dollar offerings on Tuesday with the former executing a sukuk and the latter a conventional bond.

L-Bank is set to print a five year dollar benchmark as investors eagerly await the outcome of this week’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting.

Parex Group, the French producer of chemicals for the building industry, began roadshowing on Monday for a €150m floating rate note, in the busiest month yet this year for the European high yield market.

Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba has launched its latest loan at $3bn, less than a week after it signed an agreement with eight mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners. However, the financing could be even bigger, with the top group hoping demand will be strong enough to increase it to $4bn by the end of syndication.

Corporate bond markets snapped into bullish mode on Friday as the effect of Mario Draghi’s renewed monetary stimulus kicked spread tightening into full throttle.

Russian gas company Gazprom is roadshowing a possible Swiss franc bond, which would be its first in the currency since the EU and US laid down sanctions on several Russian state-owned companies in 2014.

European Central Bank president Mario Draghi did not disappoint with his latest burst of stimulus on Thursday — although some public sector bankers felt his latest efforts to boost the eurozone economy could have damaging effects on the SSA bond market.

Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten brought a 10 year dollar benchmark this week that sparked much debate about whether other issuers would be able to follow in the tenor. Although with a flurry of other trades this week, it is clear that other options are available once next week’s US Federal Reserve meeting is held.

Immofinanz sold €171m of shares in residential property developer Buwog on Wednesday night, in what a banker said was the only block trade to hit the screens before the European Central Bank monetary policy meeting on Thursday.

Hutchison China MediTech’s (Chi-Med) $100m IPO on the Nasdaq was oversubscribed three days into bookbuilding, even as bankers pinned their hopes on a select group of US funds.

Manulife US Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) has rejigged the syndicate for its planned $400m IPO in Singapore, with JP Morgan no longer among the banks working on the deal.