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Unitymedia, the German cable operator, this week priced €420m of senior secured 10 year notes to yield 4.625%, the wide end of price talk.

CRCC High-Tech Equipment Corp has raised HK$2.8bn ($360m) from a Hong Kong IPO after pricing near the floor of its range.

China National Bluestar is in the market with its second dollar bond of the year, opening books to a perpetual non call three transaction on December 10.

Unitymedia, one of Germany’s largest cable operators, launched a €420m senior secured high yield bond today.

African Development Bank brought in more than $600m of orders for a no-grow $500m December 2018 global green bond on Wednesday, a deal that bankers involved felt might not have worked as well without the socially responsible investment tag.

Deutsche Bank will not be a primary dealer for Belgium in 2016, after the country’s minister of finance, Johan Van Overtveldt did not reappoint the German bank in its updated list for 2016.

Cooper, the French pharmaceuticals distributor, has priced the term loan ‘B’ for its acquisition by Charterhouse at 475bp over Euribor, with an original issue discount of 99.5, the wide end of initial talk that began at 450bp.

Corporate bond bankers are busy, for this time of year. While they are usually up for doing deals, it is clear investors, too, are in no hurry to close their books for the year, but are keen to buy paper, despite the let-down of the European Central Bank’s lukewarm QE boost last week.

At this time of year, attention in the equity capital market is divided between avidly fighting for next year’s mandates, which are beginning to mount up — and counting the spoils from this year. Has it been a good, bad or indifferent year — and for whom?

Corporate treasurers across Europe will be thanking Daimler today, as the German car maker took the lead on Tuesday and showed that the bond market is wide open for deals.

Deutsche Bank has suffered another rating agency downgrade, this time from Fitch, which said the German giant had fallen behind its universal banking peers in preparing for tougher regulation.

Deutsche Bank’s head of Asia fixed income capital markets, Herman van den Wall Bake, has left the bank, sources close to the move confirmed.